Advisories

PX4 Autopilot sd_bench Heap Buffer Overflow via Block Size

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severity
high
date
Affecting
  • PX4-Autopilot <= 1.17.0

CWE
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS
7.1
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Xiaoyang Chen
Description
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.

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