Source: assimp
Version: 5.4.3+ds-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/6168
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for assimp.

CVE-2025-5166[0]:
| A vulnerability was found in Open Asset Import Library Assimp 5.4.3.
| It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function
| MDCImporter::InternReadFile of the file
| assimp/code/AssetLib/MDC/MDCLoader.cpp of the component MDC File
| Parser. The manipulation of the argument pcVerts leads to out-of-
| bounds read. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host.
| The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The
| project decided to collect all Fuzzer bugs in a main-issue to
| address them in the future.


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-2025-5166
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5166
[1] https://github.com/assimp/assimp/issues/6168

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore

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