Bug 2054955 (CVE-2022-23946) - CVE-2022-23946 kicad: KiCad 6.0.1 Stack-based buffer overflow in GCodeNumber parsing
Summary: CVE-2022-23946 kicad: KiCad 6.0.1 Stack-based buffer overflow in GCodeNumber ...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2022-23946
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2054956 2054957
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-02-16 05:42 UTC by Avinash Hanwate
Modified: 2022-02-16 06:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-02-16 06:17:08 UTC
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Description Avinash Hanwate 2022-02-16 05:42:56 UTC 
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.

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1460
Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2022-02-16 05:43:20 UTC 
Created kicad tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2054956]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2054957]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-02-16 06:17:06 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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