Out-of-Bounds Affecting gtkwave package, versions <3.3.118-0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-GTKWAVE-11745092
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed8 Jan 2024

Introduced: 8 Jan 2024

CVE-2023-39444  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 gtkwave to version 3.3.118-0.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gtkwave package and not the gtkwave package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

Multiple out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities exist in the LXT2 parsing functionality of GTKWave 3.3.115. A specially-crafted .lxt2 file can lead to arbitrary code execution. A victim would need to open a malicious file to trigger these vulnerabilities.This vulnerability concerns the out-of-bounds write perfomed by the string copy loop.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1