Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting gtkwave/gtkwave package, versions [3.3.115,3.3.118)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GTKWAVEGTKWAVE-6150757
  • published11 Jan 2024
  • disclosed8 Jan 2024
  • creditClaudio Bozzato

Introduced: 8 Jan 2024

CVE-2023-38621  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gtkwave/gtkwave to version 3.3.118 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound via the facgeometry parsing functionality, during the allocation of the flags array. An attacker can execute arbitrary code by providing a malicious .vzt file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1