FKIE_CVE-2026-42996

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-01 07:15 - Updated: 2026-05-01 23:16
Severity
10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/S:P/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Green
Summary
JS8Call through 2.3.1 and JS8Call-improved before 3.0 have a stack-based buffer overflow via a radio transmission of @APRSIS GRID followed by a long Maidenhead locator. This occurs in grid2deg in APRSISClient.cpp.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://amateur-radio-resources.sourceforge.io/PDF/JS8APRS.pdf
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/JS8Call-improved/JS8Call-improved/commit/a6c7a19b82bbd7c2c0c892576f84d7449e8c7088
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/JS8Call-improved/JS8Call-improved/security/advisories/GHSA-98hp-pjp7-w62x
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/js8call/js8call/blob/fd721e8b67eed84cb3c09d018205ab9a53e1a8b1/APRSISClient.cpp#L89-L102
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/JS8Call-improved/JS8Call-improved/security/advisories/GHSA-98hp-pjp7-w62x
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  "lastModified": "2026-05-01T23:16:18.233",
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