In short
- CVE-2019-19917 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting lout (lout project), backports sle (opensuse).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 74.9% of all vulnerabilities.
- No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| lout | = 3.40
| No fix yet |
| backports sle | = 15.0
| No fix yet |
Description
Lout 3.40 has a buffer overflow in the StringQuotedWord() function in z39.c.
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