CVE-2017-2775: national instruments labview 2016 evaluation

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-2775 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in national instruments labview 2016 evaluation. EPSS estimates a 2.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 31-03-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the LvVariantUnflatten functionality in 64-bit versions of LabVIEW before 2015 SP1 f7 Patch and 2016 before f2 Patch. A specially crafted VI file can cause a user controlled value to be used as a loop terminator resulting in internal heap corruption. An attacker controlled VI file can be used to trigger this vulnerability, exploitation could lead to remote code execution.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.