CVE-2019-16166

Publication date 9 September 2019

Last updated 11 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

GNU cflow through 1.6 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the nexttoken function in parser.c.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cflow	25.10 questing	Vulnerable
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

ccdm94

according to commit notes provided by upstream, the fix for this issue can be found in b9a7cd5e9d4. This is the same fix as the one for CVE-2019-16165. However, it seems like version 1.7, which would already include it, is still vulnerable to the issue, the reproducer file generating the same heap-based buffer overflow error when cflow is run with ASAN. Therefore, it seems like a patch for this vulnerability is still needed as of version 1.7.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H