CVE-2008-2080: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center Common Data Format

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Read32s_64 function in src/lib/cdfread64.c in the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Common Data Format (CDF) library before 3.2.1 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .cdf file with crafted length tags.

Affected products

• Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center Common Data Format: up to and including 3.2; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only; …

Published 2008-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.