PT-2025-21223 · Unknown+1 · Pointcloudlibrary+1

Titan Team · Published 2025-05-14 · Updated 2025-12-28 · CVE-2025-4638

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PointCloudLibrary (PCL) versions prior to 1.14.0

Description: 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.

Recommendations: For PCL versions prior to 1.14.0, update to version 1.14.0 or later to use the system's zlib installation by default, which mitigates this issue. Alternatively, ensure that the system's zlib library is up to date. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the inftrees.c component until a patch is available.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-4638

MGASA-2025-0162

ROSA-SA-2025-2896

Affected Products

Pointcloudlibrary

Zlib

References · 17

• https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/commit/502bd2b013ce635f21632d523aa8cf2e04f7b7ac · Patch
• https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/6245 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-4638 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4638 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/message/OPTP7IW7Z54KXHWHH6JSVJ75RDCVQ4Z7 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-4638 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2025-0162 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-4638 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0162.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4638 · Security Note
• https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/blob/master/surface/CMakeLists.txt#L70 · Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/139590 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/Cezar_H_Linux/status/2005255074092826962 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/latest_high_impact_cve/2367 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1922765607545749908 · Twitter Post