Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-3847 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Nasa Cfitsio 3.42
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Multiple exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in image parsing functionality of the CFITSIO library version 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Talos
| id | TALOS-2018-0530 |
| last seen | 2019-05-29 |
| published | 2018-04-12 |
| reporter | Talos Intelligence |
| source | http://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0530 |
| title | NASA CFITSIO `ffgkyn` Stack Overflow Code Execution Vulnerability |