CVE-2022-23946: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Gerber Viewer gerber and excellon GCodeNumber parsing functionality of KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master commit de006fc010. A specially-crafted gerber or excellon file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 35 only
• Kicad Kicad Eda: version 6.0.1 only

Published 2022-02-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.