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CVE-2023-4508: Denial of Service in Gerbv

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-08-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-824

Description

A user able to control file input to Gerbv, between versions 2.4.0 and 2.10.0, can cause a crash and cause denial-of-service with a specially crafted Gerber RS-274X file.

Affected products

• Gerbv: from 2.4.0 through 2.10.0

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-4508
• https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv/commit/5517e22250e935dc7f86f64ad414aeae3dbcb36a
• https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv/issues/191
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-4508
• https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv/commit/5517e22250e935dc7f86f64ad414aeae3dbcb36a
• https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv/issues/191

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