CVE-2022-23803

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon ReadXYCoord coordinate parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.0.2+dfsg-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.1.9+dfsg1-1+deb11u1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.0.2+dfsg-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.0.2+dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.0.2+dfsg-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-23803

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.