Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-23946 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon GCodeNumber parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| OS | 1 | |
| OS | 3 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1460
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00009.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00010.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5214
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5EMCGSSP3FIWCSL2KXVXLF35JYZKZE5Q/