Advisories

PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 Stack Exhaustion via tests file2 Command

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severity
high
date
Affecting
  • PX4-Autopilot <= 1.17.0

CWE
  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
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
Tianbo Wang, Xiaoyang Chen
Description
PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 contains an uncontrolled stack allocation vulnerability in the file2 test command that fails to validate the write chunk size parameter. Attackers with shell access can supply an excessively large value to the -c option to trigger stack overflow and crash the flight controller.

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