Description
NASA CFITSIO prior to 3.43 is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: arbitrary code execution. The component is: over 40 source code files were changed. The attack vector is: remote unauthenticated attacker. The fixed version is: 3.43. NOTE: this CVE refers to the issues not covered by CVE-2018-3846, CVE-2018-3847, CVE-2018-3848, and CVE-2018-3849. One example is ftp_status in drvrnet.c mishandling a long string beginning with a '4' character.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_misc
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/docs/changes2.txt
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/7274
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892458
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_misc
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3420.tar.gz
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_misc
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3430.tar.gz
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0717
EPSS Percentile
93.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (1)
nasa/cfitsio
< 3.43
Published
Jul 16, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026