A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon GCodeNumber parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5214 advisory.

  - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon ReadXYCoord     coordinate parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted     gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger     this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-23803)

  - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon ReadIJCoord     coordinate parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted     gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger     this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-23804)

  - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon GCodeNumber     parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted gerber or     excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this     vulnerability. (CVE-2022-23946)

  - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon DCodeNumber     parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted gerber or     excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this     vulnerability. (CVE-2022-23947)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3078 advisory.

  - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon ReadXYCoord     coordinate parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted     gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger     this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-23803)

  - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon ReadIJCoord     coordinate parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted     gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger     this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-23804)

  - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon GCodeNumber     parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted gerber or     excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this     vulnerability. (CVE-2022-23946)

  - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon DCodeNumber     parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted gerber or     excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this     vulnerability. (CVE-2022-23947)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-2998 advisory.

  - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon ReadXYCoord     coordinate parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted     gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger     this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-23803)

  - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon ReadIJCoord     coordinate parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted     gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger     this vulnerability. (CVE-2022-23804)

  - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon GCodeNumber     parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted gerber or     excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this     vulnerability. (CVE-2022-23946)

  - A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon DCodeNumber     parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted gerber or     excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this     vulnerability. (CVE-2022-23947)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 35 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-78b18981a6 advisory.

    Update to 6.0.2

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
164321	Debian DSA-5214-1 : kicad - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
164317	Debian DLA-3078-1 : kicad - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
160978	Debian DLA-2998-1 : kicad - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
158557	Fedora 35 : kicad (2022-78b18981a6)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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