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ubuntu-cve-2019-9578

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2019-03-05 23:29

Modified

2026-04-22 07:38

Summary

Details

In devs.c in Yubico libu2f-host before 1.1.8, the response to init is misparsed, leaking uninitialized stack memory back to the device.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-9578	REPORT
	https://developers.yubico.com/libu2f-host/Release…	REPORT
	https://github.com/Yubico/libu2f-host/commit/e4bb…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9578	REPORT

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CVE-2019-9578 (GCVE-0-2019-9578)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-05 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 21:54

Summary

In devs.c in Yubico libu2f-host before 1.1.8, the response to init is misparsed, leaking uninitialized stack memory back to the device.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://developers.yubico.com/libu2f-host/Release…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Yubico/libu2f-host/commit/e4bb…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://blog.inhq.net/posts/yubico-libu2f-host-vu…	x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-15	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO

Date Public

2019-03-05 00:00

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Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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ubuntu-cve-2019-9578

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2019-9578 (GCVE-0-2019-9578)

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