In the ffgphd and ffgtkn functions 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.
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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01518}

epss

{'score': 0.01884}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published: 2018-04-16T15:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T02:21:57.506Z

Reserved: 2018-01-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-3846

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-04-16T16:29:00.220

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:06:09.547

Link: CVE-2018-3846

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2018-03-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-3846 - Bugzilla