USN-5375-1

It was discovered that GNU cflow was incorrectly handling memory cleanup operations at the end of a compilation module. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / cflow

Package

Name: cflow
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/cflow@1:1.4+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.16.04.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:1.4+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.16.04.1~esm1

Affected versions

1:1.*

1:1.4+dfsg1-3ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:1.4+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.16.04.1~esm1",
            "binary_name": "cflow"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-5375-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2019-16165"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS"
}

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / cflow