CVE-2019-9211 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2019-9211?

CVE-2019-9211 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 27 Feb 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

There is a reachable assertion abort in the function write_long_string_missing_values() in data/sys-file-writer.c in libdata.a in GNU PSPP 1.2.0 that will lead to denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-617

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-9211?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Gnu Pspp, Suse Backports.

How do I fix CVE-2019-9211?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2019-9211 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-9211 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-2019-9211, GHSA-46x2-68m6-pgpc, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9211, openSUSE-SU-2019:1228-1.