CVE-2018-3849

HIGH

NASA CFITSIO < 3.490 - Stack-Based Buffer Overflow in ffghtb Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the ffghtb 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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-24
Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0531

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0403
EPSS Percentile 89.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
fedoraproject/fedora 28
nasa/cfitsio < 3.490
Published Apr 16, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026