CVE-2023-38650 (GCVE-0-2023-38650)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-08 14:47 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:16
VLAI
Summary
Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the VZT vzt_rd_block_vch_decode times parsing functionality of GTKWave 3.3.115. A specially crafted .vzt file can lead to memory corruption. A victim would need to open a malicious file to trigger these vulnerabilities.This vulnerability concerns the integer overflow when num_time_ticks is not zero.
Severity
7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-01-08 16:12 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Assigner
talos CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 60/100 over 46 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GTKWave GTKWave Affected: 3.3.115
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Credits
Discovered by Claudio Bozzato of Cisco Talos.
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.