PT-2019-16020

CVE-2019-19958

Published

2019-12-24

Updated

2020-08-24

Description by

CVSS 3.1

6.5

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libIEC61850 version 1.4.0

Description The issue is related to an integer signedness problem in the StringUtils createStringFromBuffer function, located in common/string utilities.c. This could potentially lead to an attempted excessive memory allocation, resulting in a denial of service.

Recommendations For libIEC61850 version 1.4.0, consider applying a patch or fix that addresses the integer signedness issue in the StringUtils createStringFromBuffer function to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

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Exploit

Fix

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Researchers

Sleicasper

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Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CWE-681: Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types

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