PT-2026-55142 · Pypi · Open Babel

Publicado

2026-07-01

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Atualizado

2026-07-01

CVSS v3.1

7.8

Alta

VetorAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

A memory-safety vulnerability in Open Babel's MOPAC input parser allowed an out-of-bounds write into the translationVectors[] array when reading Tv (translation-vector) atoms from a crafted input file.

Details

The MOPAC IN reader stored Tv-atom translation vectors into a fixed-size translationVectors[] array. A malformed input with more than three Tv atoms (or three plus extras) could push more vectors than the array had slots, causing a write past the end of the array. One of five translationVectors[] OOB writes in the TALOS 2022 batch.

Impact

Open Babel is a C++ library and CLI used to read and write chemistry file formats; it is shipped by Linux distributions and embedded in services that may parse untrusted input. Triggering this vulnerability requires the victim to open a malicious MOPAC input file with the obabel tool, the OBConversion API, or any of the language bindings (Python, Ruby, Java, R, Perl, C#, PHP).

Affected versions

All releases up to and including 3.1.1.

Patched version

3.2.0 (released 2026-05-26).

Patch

A minimized reproducer for this CVE is checked in under test/files/fuzz regress/ and is exercised on every CI build under ASAN+UBSAN by the fuzzregresstest harness.

Credit

Reported by Cisco TALOS.

Correção

Buffer Overflow

Memory Corruption

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Identificadores relacionados

GHSA-MJMG-352J-F456

Produtos afetados

Open Babel