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CVE-2022-23947

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-02-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-121

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon DCodeNumber 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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35
• Kicad Eda: 6.0.1

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00009.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00010.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5EMCGSSP3FIWCSL2KXVXLF35JYZKZE5Q/
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1460
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5214
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00009.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00010.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5EMCGSSP3FIWCSL2KXVXLF35JYZKZE5Q/
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1460
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5214

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