CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2019-6138 — An issue has been found in libIEC61850 v1.3.1

High CVSS 7.5

An issue has been found in libIEC61850 v1.3.1. Memory_malloc and Memory_calloc in hal/memory/lib_memory.c have memory leaks when called from mms/iso_mms/common/mms_value.c, server/mms_mapping/mms_mapping.c, and server/mms_mapping/mms_sv.c (via common/string_utilities.c), as demonstrated by iec61850_9_2_LE_example.c.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.0)
Published
2019-01-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Affected products

  • mz-automation / libiec61850 / 1.3.1

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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