CVE-2021-45943 (GCVE-0-2021-45943)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-31 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 04:54
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
GDAL 3.3.0 through 3.4.0 has a heap-based buffer overflow in PCIDSK::CPCIDSKFile::ReadFromFile (called from PCIDSK::CPCIDSKSegment::ReadFromFile and PCIDSK::CPCIDSKBinarySegment::CPCIDSKBinarySegment).
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
11 references
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