CVE-2019-20016: Symonics Libmysofa

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libmysofa before 2019-11-24 does not properly restrict recursive function calls, as demonstrated by reports of stack consumption in readOHDRHeaderMessageDatatype in dataobject.c and directblockRead in fractalhead.c. NOTE: a download of v0.9 after 2019-12-06 should fully remediate this issue.

Affected products

• Symonics Libmysofa: before 0.9 (fixed in 0.9)

Published 2019-12-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.