CVE-2025-47868

16.06.2025, 11:15

Out-of-bounds Write resulting in possible Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability was discovered in tools/bdf-converter font conversion utility that is part of Apache NuttX RTOS repository. This standalone program is optional and neither part of NuttX RTOS nor Applications runtime, but active bdf-converter users may be affected when this tool is exposed to external provided user data data (i.e. publicly available automation).

This issue affects Apache NuttX: from 6.9 before 12.9.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 12.9.0, which fixes the issue.

Provider	Type	Base Score	Atk. Vector	Atk. Complexity	Priv. Required	Vector
NIST	NIST	9.8 CRITICAL	NETWORK	LOW	NONE	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
apache	CNA	---				---
CVE	ADP	---				---
CISA-ADP	ADP	9.8 CRITICAL	NETWORK	LOW	NONE	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Awaiting analysis

This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis.

Base Score

CVSS 3.x

EPSS Score

Percentile: 2%

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

References

https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/16000

https://lists.apache.org/thread/p4o2lcqgspx3ws1n2p4wmoqbqow1w1pw

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/14/1