CVE-2019-13223 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-13223?

CVE-2019-13223 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 15 Aug 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A reachable assertion in the lookup1_values function in stb_vorbis through 2019-03-04 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by opening a crafted Ogg Vorbis file.

Weakness: CWE-617

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-13223?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Stb Vorbis Project Stb Vorbis.

How do I fix CVE-2019-13223?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-13223 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-13223 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-13223, GHSA-h492-2fwx-rwp7.