Medium
Security advisory
It was discovered the fix for CVE-2018-19758 (libsndfile) was not complete and still allows a read beyond the limits of a buffer in wav_write_header() function in wav.c. A local attacker may use this flaw to make the application crash.
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-3832
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
It was discovered the fix for CVE-2018-19758 (libsndfile) was not complete and still allows a read beyond the limits of a buffer in wav_write_header() function in wav.c. A local attacker may use this flaw to make the application crash.
osv:CVE-2019-3832
Complete source record
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