CVE-2023-46256

PX4-Autopilot Heap Buffer Overflow Bug

State
Published
Severity
4.4 Medium
Published
Oct 31, 2023
Updated
Sep 5, 2024
Reserved
Oct 19, 2023

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Description

PX4-Autopilot provides PX4 flight control solution for drones. In versions 1.14.0-rc1 and prior, PX4-Autopilot has a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the parser function due to the absence of `parserbuf_index` value checking. A malfunction of the sensor device can cause a heap buffer overflow with leading unexpected drone behavior. Malicious applications can exploit the vulnerability even if device sensor malfunction does not occur. Up to the maximum value of an `unsigned int`, bytes sized data can be written to the heap memory area. As of time of publication, no fixed version is available.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
PX4-AutopilotPX4
  • <= 1.14.0-rc1Affected

References

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