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PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 Use-After-Free via Temperature Calibration Task Startup

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severity
medium
date
Affecting

  • PX4-Autopilot <= 1.17.0

CWE
  • CWE-416 Use After Free
CVSS
6.0
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Xiaoyang Chen
Description
PX4 Autopilot through 1.17.0 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in TemperatureCalibration::start() due to a race condition between task spawning and object deletion. Attackers can trigger the calibration process via shell commands to write to freed heap memory, corrupting unrelated objects or allocator metadata and destabilizing heap operations.

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