High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 1, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-3847
CVE-2018-3847
Description
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.
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References
2- www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0530nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-24nvdThird Party Advisory
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