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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-3832

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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31 Oct 2026, 10:46 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-3832

core-osv · Original source

Published 21 Mar 2019, 16:01 UTC

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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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2019-03-21T16:01:04.797+00:00"
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