VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-17174

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability2.59%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-09-21
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the xtimor NMEA library (aka nmealib) 0.5.3. nmea_parse() in parser.c allows an attacker to trigger denial of service (even arbitrary code execution in a certain context) in a product using this library via malformed data.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-787

Primary references