CVE-2025-29480

Publication date 7 April 2025

Last updated 16 January 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in gdal 3.10.2 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the OGRSpatialReference::Release function. NOTE: the Supplier indicates that the report is invalid and could not be reproduced.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gdal 25.10 questing Ignored vulnerabilty has been disputed by upstream maintainers
25.04 plucky Ignored end of life, was ignored [vulnerabilty has been disputed by upstream maintainers]
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble Ignored vulnerabilty has been disputed by upstream maintainers
22.04 LTS jammy Ignored vulnerabilty has been disputed by upstream maintainers
20.04 LTS focal Ignored vulnerabilty has been disputed by upstream maintainers
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored vulnerabilty has been disputed by upstream maintainers
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored vulnerabilty has been disputed by upstream maintainers
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored vulnerabilty has been disputed by upstream maintainers

Notes


shishirsub10

Upstream were unable to reproduce the vulnerability, and the line numbers stated in the PoC does not match the relevant line numbers in upstream.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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