GHSA-qgg2-74c2-x77rMediumCVSS 6.1
NEURON (CoreNEURON) through 9.0.2 contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows...
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📋 Description
NEURON (CoreNEURON) through 9.0.2 contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that allows attackers to corrupt stack memory by supplying over-long tokens in a crafted model dataset. Attackers can place oversized version or mechanism-name tokens in bbcore_mech.dat, globals.dat, or files.dat loaded by nrniv-core to crash the process.
🔗 References (6)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-123203
- https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/pull/3932
- https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/commit/6e5a6578a3503c44ee0f19593e7ffb19812ef0e1
- https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/blob/ba5783378c0aa1d9ac95b4454bea94b15c63f75d/src/coreneuron/io/mk_mech.cpp#L81-L96
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/neuron-through-9.0.2-stack-based-buffer-overflow-via-coreneuron-dataset-tokens
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qgg2-74c2-x77r