High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 5, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-2779

Description

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the RSRC segment parsing functionality of LabVIEW 2017, LabVIEW 2016, LabVIEW 2015, and LabVIEW 2014. A specially crafted Virtual Instrument (VI) file can cause an attacker controlled looping condition resulting in an arbitrary null write. An attacker controlled VI file can be used to trigger this vulnerability and can potentially result in code execution.

Affected products

Ni/Labview4 versions
cpe:2.3:a:ni:labview:2014:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:a:ni:labview:2014:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ni:labview:2015:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ni:labview:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:ni:labview:2017:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Native Instruments/Labview 2016v5
Range: 16.0

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

0patch.blogspot.com/2017/09/0patching-rsrc-arbitrary-null-write.htmlnvdExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2017-0273nvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
www.ni.com/product-documentation/54099/en/nvdMitigationVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/100519nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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