CVE-2022-23804

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon ReadIJCoord coordinate 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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.8 High

Status

Modified - talos-cna@cisco.com

Published

2022-02-16

Last modified

2025-04-15

Weaknesses

CWE-121, CWE-787

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Eda (Kicad)

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00009.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00010.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5EMCGSSP3FIWCSL2KXVXLF…
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1453
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5214