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CVE-2018-17174

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

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Nmealib ProjectNmealib
Version 0.5.3

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