PX4-Autopilot 1.14.3 stack-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in PX4-Autopilot 1.14.3. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-40427. No exploit exists. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in PX4-Autopilot 1.14.3 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Stack Buffer Overflow in PX4-Autopilot v1.14.3, which allows attackers to execute commands to exploit this vulnerability and cause the program to refuse to execute

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-40427 since 07/05/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Applying the patch e03e0261a1a0c82f545e66a1e3795956c886db71 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Stack-based overflow
CWE: CWE-121 / CWE-119
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Remote: Partially

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Patch: e03e0261a1a0c82f545e66a1e3795956c886db71

Timelineinfo

07/05/2024 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: GHSA-55wq-2hgm-75m4
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-40427 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-40427
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-290687

Entryinfo

Created: 01/07/2025 20:27
Changes: 01/07/2025 20:27 (56)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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