UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16748

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-16748
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16748.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16748
Upstream
Published
2019-09-24T13:15:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:47:53Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

In wolfSSL through 4.1.0, there is a missing sanity check of memory accesses in parsing ASN.1 certificate data while handshaking. Specifically, there is a one-byte heap-based buffer over-read in CheckCertSignature_ex in wolfcrypt/src/asn.c.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / wolfssl

Package

Name
wolfssl
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl@3.4.8+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*

3.4.8+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "3.4.8+dfsg-1",
            "binary_name": "libcyassl5"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "3.4.8+dfsg-1",
            "binary_name": "libwolfssl-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "3.4.8+dfsg-1",
            "binary_name": "libwolfssl0"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16748.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / wolfssl

Package

Name
wolfssl
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl@3.13.0+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*

3.10.2+dfsg-2
3.12.0+dfsg-1
3.12.2+dfsg-1
3.13.0+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "3.13.0+dfsg-1",
            "binary_name": "libwolfssl-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "3.13.0+dfsg-1",
            "binary_name": "libwolfssl15"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16748.json"