ubuntu-cve-2019-16239
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2019-09-17 12:15
Modified
2026-04-22 07:39
Summary
Details

process_http_response in OpenConnect before 8.05 has a Buffer Overflow when a malicious server uses HTTP chunked encoding with crafted chunk sizes.

Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libopenconnect5",
            "binary_version": "7.08-3ubuntu0.18.04.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "openconnect",
            "binary_version": "7.08-3ubuntu0.18.04.2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "openconnect",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/openconnect@7.08-3ubuntu0.18.04.2?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "7.08-3ubuntu0.18.04.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "7.08-1",
        "7.08-2",
        "7.08-3",
        "7.08-3ubuntu0.18.04.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "process_http_response in OpenConnect before 8.05 has a Buffer Overflow when a malicious server uses HTTP chunked encoding with crafted chunk sizes.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16239",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:39:06Z",
  "published": "2019-09-17T12:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-16239"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openconnect-devel/2019-September/005412.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://github.com/openconnect/openconnect/commit/875f0a65ab73f4fb581ca870fd3a901bd278f8e8"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FX56KYWC7X4ETV4P6HGJC7GZUEBITBBS/"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HDMZGNBLZZKAGBI2PNXYWWKLD2LXKFH6/"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WI7ZENFAWCHF2RU4NHPL2CU4WGZ4BNDJ/"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://t2.fi/schedule/2019/"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4565-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-16239"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-4565-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2019-16239"
  ]
}



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