PX4 Autopilot up to 1.17.0 Sd Bench Command sd_bench heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in PX4 Autopilot up to 1.17.0. This impacts the function sd_bench of the component Sd Bench Command. Performing a manipulation results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-84698. The attack must be initiated from a local position. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in PX4 Autopilot up to 1.17.0. This affects the function sd_bench of the component Sd Bench Command. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

PX4 Autopilot contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the sd_bench command that writes a four-byte block number into a user-supplied sized allocation. Attackers can invoke sd_bench with a block size below four bytes to overflow the heap buffer and potentially execute code or crash the system.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-84698 since 09/02/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• PX4

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• Autopilot

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17.0

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