CVE-2018-17174: Nmealib Project Nmealib

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the xtimor NMEA library (aka nmealib) 0.5.3. nmea_parse() in parser.c allows an attacker to trigger denial of service (even arbitrary code execution in a certain context) in a product using this library via malformed data.

Affected products

• Nmealib Project Nmealib: version 0.5.3 only

Published 2018-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.