Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-3846 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the ffgphd and ffgtkn functions in NASA CFITSIO 3.42, specially crafted images parsed via the library can cause a stack-based buffer overflow overwriting arbitrary data. An attacker can deliver an FIT image to trigger this vulnerability and potentially gain code execution.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 | |
OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family | Fedora Local Security Checks |
NASL id | FEDORA_2019-3C1AED2AA9.NASL |
description | This update backports security fixes from cfitsio 3.440 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 123138 |
published | 2019-03-27 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123138 |
title | Fedora 28 : cfitsio (2019-3c1aed2aa9) |
code |
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Talos
id | TALOS-2018-0529 |
last seen | 2019-05-29 |
published | 2018-04-12 |
reporter | Talos Intelligence |
source | http://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0529 |
title | NASA CFITSIO Multiple Stack Overflow Code Execution Vulnerabilities |
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K46I2MFPCEOGC5LLDXZSWPB3EBPON3KA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K46I2MFPCEOGC5LLDXZSWPB3EBPON3KA/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-24
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-24
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0529
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0529