vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-53425: assimp -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 21, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability was discovered in the SkipSpacesAndLineEnd function in Assimp v5.4.3. This issue occurs when processing certain malformed MD5 model files, leading to an out-of-bounds read and potential application crash.

Solution

no-fix-debian-deb-package
Title
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