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CVE-2026-115504

HIGHCVSS 7.8NVD feed

Published 22 October 2026 · tracked since 23 October 2026

Description

CFITSIO through 4.7.0 contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in ffgcls2() in getcols.c that trusts attacker-controlled heap descriptor lengths for variable-length string columns. Attackers can supply a crafted FITS file that overflows a fixed 28,800-byte stack buffer and the caller's string a

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