Buffer overflow in Pointcloudlibrary Pcl

CVE-2025-4640

Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in PointCloudLibrary pcl allows Overflow Buffers. 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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.004 (27.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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