Bug#949325: libmysofa: CVE-2020-6860

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: libmysofa
Version: 0.9.1~dfsg0-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/96

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for libmysofa.

CVE-2020-6860[0]:
| libmysofa 0.9.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in readDataVar in
| hdf/dataobject.c during the reading of a header message attribute.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-6860
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-6860
[1] https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/issues/96
[2] https://github.com/hoene/libmysofa/commit/c31120a4ddfe3fc705cfdd74da7e884e1866da85

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore