Bug 1173588 – VUL-0: CVE-2018-3848: cfitsio: Stack-based buffer overflow in ffghbn() allows for potential code execution

Bug 1173588 - (CVE-2018-3848) VUL-0: CVE-2018-3848: cfitsio: Stack-based buffer overflow in ffghbn() allows for potential code execution

(CVE-2018-3848)
Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2018-3848: cfitsio: Stack-based buffer overflow in ffghbn() allows...

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Classification:	openSUSE
Product:	openSUSE Distribution
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Security
Version:	Leap 15.1
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Major (vote)
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Assigned To:	Security Team bot
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/204061/
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Reported:	2020-07-01 15:06 UTC by Alexandros Toptsoglou
Modified:	2020-07-01 15:07 UTC (History)
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Description Alexandros Toptsoglou 2020-07-01 15:06:47 UTC

CVE-2018-3848

CFITSIO through version 3.42 has a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the ffghbn() function that can potentially allow an attacker to execute code via a crafted FIT image file.


External References:

https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0531
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/docs/changes2.txt


Additional References:

https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/7274

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1568180
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1850866
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2018-3848
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-3848.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3848
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-3848/
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-3848
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0531

Comment 1 Alexandros Toptsoglou 2020-07-01 15:07:41 UTC

We ship the version 2.44 in Leap 15.1 and 15.2 and 3.47 in TW which are already
fixed.