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TI-2025-04139 Aliases CVE-2025-4638GHSA-hg9g-m8wg-jv2x

Improper Pointer Arithmetic in pcl

Priority MEDIUM 48CWE-119Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

A vulnerability exists in the inftrees.c component of the zlib library, which is bundled within the PointCloudLibrary (PCL). This issue may allow context-dependent attackers to cause undefined behavior by exploiting improper pointer arithmetic. Since version 1.14.0, PCL by default uses a zlib installation from the system, unless the user sets WITH_SYSTEM_ZLIB=FALSE. So this potential vulnerability is only relevant if the PCL version is older than 1.14.0 or the user specifically requests to not use the system zlib.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00552 46th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

No affected products listed by the sources yet.

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:pointclouds:point_cloud_library:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 1.14.0VulnerablePointclouds
  • cpe:2.3:a:pointclouds:point_cloud_library:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 1.14.0 Vulnerable ·Pointclouds

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    PointCloudLibrary pcl <1.15.0

    2 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 1 MEDIUM, 1 LOW

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Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-4638
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hg9g-m8wg-jv2x

References

Patch 2

Other 1

Sources

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