Bug#1088186: pcl: CVE-2024-53432: Uncaught Exception in PCLPointCloud2::at When Parsing Malformed PLY Files

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: pcl
Version: 1.14.0+dfsg-4
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/issues/6162
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for pcl.

CVE-2024-53432[0]:
| While parsing certain malformed PLY files, PCL version 1.14.1
| crashes due to an uncaught std::out_of_range exception in
| PCLPointCloud2::at. This issue could potentially be exploited to
| cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack when processing untrusted PLY
| files.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-53432
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53432
[1] https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/issues/6162

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore