Memory leak in libLAS - CVE-2024-27507

 

Memory leak in libLAS - CVE-2024-27507

Published: March 4, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU87034
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-2024-27507
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak in /libLAS/apps/ts2las.cpp. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.


Affected software

libLAS
Fedora
liblas

How to mitigate CVE-2024-27507

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

liblas - addressed in versions 1.8.2-0.12.gitf1da555.fc38, 1.8.2-0.12.gitf1da555.fc39, 1.8.2-0.12.gitf1da555.fc40

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