Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
6.9
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

CFITSIO through 4.7.0 contains a heap-based out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the HCOMPRESS tile decoder that allows attackers to read past the compressed tile buffer via inputnnybble in fitshdecompress.c. Attackers can supply a crafted FITS file with ZCMPTYPE HCOMPRESS1 declaring oversized tile geometry to crash applications calling fitsreadpix or disclose limited heap memory.

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