Double Free Affecting gdal package, versions [,3.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.09% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-GDAL-473011
  • published 14 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 2 Aug 2019
  • credit OSS Fuzz

How to fix?

Upgrade GDAL to version 3.0.2 or higher.

Overview

GDAL is a number of tools for programming and manipulating the GDAL Geospatial Data Abstraction Library.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free. A poolDestroy double free in OGRExpatRealloc in ogr/ogr_expat.cpp can be exploited when the 10MB threshold is exceeded.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.1 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.8 critical