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CVE-2018-17174
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-21T17:29:07.483 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:45:28.337

Summary

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

nmealib_project — nmealib

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