CVE-2018-3848

In the ffghbn function 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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.8 High

Status

Modified - talos-cna@cisco.com

Published

2018-04-16

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-121, CWE-787

Affected products

• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Cfitsio (Nasa)
• Nasa Cfitsio (Talos)

References

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/K46I2MFPCEOGC5LLDXZSWP…
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-24
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0531