Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnucobol  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-GNUCOBOL-529945
  • published4 Aug 2019
  • disclosed2 Aug 2019

Introduced: 2 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-14541  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:11.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnucobol package and not the gnucobol package as distributed by Debian.

GnuCOBOL 2.2 has a stack-based buffer overflow in cb_encode_program_id in cobc/typeck.c via crafted COBOL source code.