CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-23946

7.8 HIGH Published 2022-02-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-02-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-121, CWE-787

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon GCodeNumber parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• kicad kicad eda 6.0.1 • fedoraproject fedora 35 • debian debian linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References