CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-17174

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2018-09-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-09-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the xtimor NMEA library (aka nmealib) 0.5.3. nmea_parse() in parser.c allows an attacker to trigger denial of service (even arbitrary code execution in a certain context) in a product using this library via malformed data.

Affected configurations

• nmealib project nmealib 0.5.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References