CVE-2019-7659 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2019-7659?

CVE-2019-7659 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 9 Feb 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Genivia gSOAP 2.7.x and 2.8.x before 2.8.75 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application abort) or possibly have unspecified other impact if a server application is built with the -DWITH_COOKIES flag. This affects the C/C++ libgsoapck/libgsoapck++ and libgsoapssl/libgsoapssl++ libraries, as these are built with that flag.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-7659?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Genivia Gsoap.

How do I fix CVE-2019-7659?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2019-7659 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-7659 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-2019-7659, DLA-1681-1, GHSA-g59f-fwhq-fr4r, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-7659.