Bug 1228142 (CVE-2024-40724)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2024-40724: assimp: heap-based buffer overflow in the PLY importer class
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	IN_PROGRESS ---	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	camila.matos, christophe
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/414598/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-40724:7.8:(AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description SMASH SMASH 2024-07-19 10:47:50 UTC

Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Assimp versions prior to 5.4.2 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code by inputting a specially crafted file into the product.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-40724
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40724
https://github.com/assimp/assimp/pull/5651/commits/614911bb3b1bfc3a1799ae2b3cca306270f3fb97
https://github.com/assimp/assimp/releases/tag/v5.4.2
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN87710540/

Comment 1 Camila Camargo de Matos 2024-07-19 10:49:06 UTC

openSUSE:Factory/assimp is not affected by this issue. 

openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP5/assimp and openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP6/assimp, however, are currently affected.

Comment 3 Christophe Marin 2024-07-20 07:19:04 UTC

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1188770