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medium 5.5

CVE-2019-18359 json

A buffer over-read was discovered in ReadMP3APETag in apetag.c in MP3Gain 1.6.2.

published 2019-10-23 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-8144

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A buffer over-read was discovered in ReadMP3APETag in apetag.c in MP3Gain 1.6.2. The vulnerability causes an application crash, which leads to remote denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • mp3gain Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.6.2-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-18359

  • mp3gain openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.6.2-2.9
  • mp3gain Package Hub 15 SP1 1.6.2-bp151.4.3.1
  • mp3gain openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.6.2-lp151.3.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11060-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0539-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0522-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-18359 updated cvss 5.5

mp3gain: buffer over-read in ReadMP3APETag function in apetag.c

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/p/mp3gain/bugs/46/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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