USN-6760-1: Gerbv vulnerability

30 April 2024

Gerbv could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted input file.

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Releases

Packages

  • gerbv - Gerber file viewer for PCB design

Details

George-Andrei Iosif and David Fernandez Gonzalez discovered that Gerbv did
not properly initialize a data structure when parsing certain nested
RS-274X format files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially
crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service (application crash).

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 23.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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