Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-13419 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Libsndfile Project Libsndfile 1.0.28

047910
CVSS 6.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
libsndfile-project
CWE-772

Summary

An issue has been found in libsndfile 1.0.28. There is a memory leak in psf_allocate in common.c, as demonstrated by sndfile-convert. NOTE: The maintainer and third parties were unable to reproduce and closed the issue

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Libsndfile_Project
1

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • HTTP DoS
    An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.