CVE-2019-19698 — marc-q libwav through 2017-04-20 has a NULL pointer dereference in wav_content_r

marc-q libwav through 2017-04-20 has a NULL pointer dereference in wav_content_read() at libwav.c.

01What is this vulnerability?

marc-q libwav through 2017-04-20 has a NULL pointer dereference in wav_content_read() at libwav.c.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-12-10T06:07:49.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T02:25:12.473Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/marc-q/libwav/issues/25
• github.com — https://github.com/xiaoxiongwang/security/tree/master/libwav