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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2018-3847

Multiple exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in image parsing functionality of the CFITSIO library version 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.

Products
cfitsio
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
3.430-1
CVEs
CVE-2018-3847
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 00:29 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-3847

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Aug 2018, 19:29 UTC

Multiple exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in image parsing functionality of the CFITSIO library version 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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-3847

cfitsio

Fixed versions: 3.430-1

cfitsio

Fixed versions: 3.430-1

cfitsio

Fixed versions: 3.430-1

Complete source record
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