Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-3847 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Nasa Cfitsio 3.42

047910
CVSS 8.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
nasa
CWE-787

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
Nasa
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Talos

idTALOS-2018-0530
last seen2019-05-29
published2018-04-12
reporterTalos Intelligence
sourcehttp://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0530
titleNASA CFITSIO `ffgkyn` Stack Overflow Code Execution Vulnerability