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A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the xtimor NMEA library (aka nmealib) 0.5.3

Published Sep 21, 2018

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the xtimor NMEA library (aka nmealib) 0.5.3. nmea_parse() in parser.c allows an attacker to trigger denial of service (even arbitrary code execution in a certain context) in a product using this library via malformed data.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Sep 21, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Sep 18, 2018
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a