Integer overflow in KissFFT - CVE-2025-34297

 

Integer overflow in KissFFT - CVE-2025-34297

Published: December 6, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU119237
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-34297
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow within the kiss_fft_alloc() function in kiss_fft.c on 32-bit platforms. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger an integer overflow and crash the aplication. 


Affected software

KissFFT
Fedora
vtk
kiss-fft

How to mitigate CVE-2025-34297

Install updates from vendor's website.

vtk - addressed in versions 9.2.6-38.fc42, 9.2.6-44.fc43
kiss-fft - addressed in versions 131.2.0-1.fc42, 131.2.0-1.fc43, 131.2.0-1.fc44

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