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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
NASA CFITSIO
< 3.43 [fixed: 3.43]affected
References
- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/docs/changes2.txt ↗
- https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/7274 ↗
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892458 ↗
- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3420.tar.gz ↗
- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3430.tar.gz ↗