Incorrect Pointer Scaling Affecting PointCloudLibrary/pcl package, versions [,1.14.0-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POINTCLOUDLIBRARYPCL-10575117
  • published2 Jul 2025
  • disclosed14 May 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 May 2025

CVE-2025-4638  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-468  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade PointCloudLibrary/pcl to version 1.14.0-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Pointer Scaling through the inftrees.c component. An attacker can cause undefined behavior by exploiting improper pointer arithmetic. This is only exploitable if the PCL version is older than 1.14.0 or the user specifically requests to not use the system zlib.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1