CVE-2017-2779: Ni Labview

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the RSRC segment parsing functionality of LabVIEW 2017, LabVIEW 2016, LabVIEW 2015, and LabVIEW 2014. A specially crafted Virtual Instrument (VI) file can cause an attacker controlled looping condition resulting in an arbitrary null write. An attacker controlled VI file can be used to trigger this vulnerability and can potentially result in code execution.

Affected products

• Ni Labview: version 2014 only; version 2015 only; version 2016 only; version 2017 only

Published 2017-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.