A spaceman came travel, cyber security in space (29-07-2025)

NVD Published Date: 07/25/2025

NVD Last Modified: 07/25/2025

Preface: Essentially, any industry or application that requires communication in environments with unreliable or intermittent network conditions can benefit from BPv7’s capabilities. µD3TN has been successfully tested in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) on the OPS-SAT satellite, demonstrating its ability to handle the unique challenges of space communication, such as high latency and intermittent connectivity.

Background: The uD3TN project, a software implementation of the Delay-/Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Bundle Protocol, incorporates an allocator that functions similarly to the C standard library’s malloc dynamic memory allocator.

This allocator within uD3TN is responsible for managing memory allocation and deallocation for various components and data structures used within the DTN protocol stack. This includes, for example, the allocation of memory for bundles, which are the fundamental data units in DTN, as well as for internal structures and buffers required for bundle processing, forwarding, and storage.

The design of this allocator aims to provide efficient memory management within the constraints and requirements of a DTN implementation, potentially considering factors such as resource limitations in embedded systems or the need for robust handling of intermittent connectivity.

Vulnerability details: NULL Pointer Dereference in µD3TN via non-singleton destination Endpoint Identifier allows remote attacker to reliably cause DoS.

Official announcement: Please refer to the link for details – https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8183

Preface: Glibc is a fundamental component of many embedded systems, which are small, specialized computer systems found in vehicles for tasks like engine control, braking, and infotainment.

Background: The regcomp function in Linux is used to compile a regular expression pattern into a form that can be efficiently used by regexec for matching. A good example of its usage involves validating user input. For instance, you might want to ensure that a user-entered password meets certain criteria, such as containing at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, one digit, and one special character.

The regcomp function in the GNU C Library’s <regex.h> is responsible for compiling a regular expression into an internal data structure that can be efficiently used for matching. Essentially, it takes a string representing a regular expression pattern and converts it into a format suitable for fast searching within other strings.

The GNU C Library (glibc) provides a consistent Application Binary Interface (ABI) across different architectures and versions, ensuring compatibility between compiled programs. Architectures define the underlying hardware instruction set, while ABIs specify how functions are called, data is passed, and objects are laid out in memory. glibc abstracts these details, allowing developers to write code once and have it run on various systems that adhere to the same ABI.

While compiling a regular expression avoids recompilation within the same program execution, a system shutdown will erase the in-memory compiled representation. When the system restarts and the program is run again, the regular expression will need to be re-compiled if the performance benefit of pre-compilation is desired. The ABI does not change this behavior; it merely dictates how the compiled code interacts with other system components.

Vulnerability details: The regcomp function in the GNU C library version from 2.4 to 2.41 is subject to a double free if some previous allocation fails. It can be accomplished either by a malloc failure or by using an interposed malloc that injects random malloc failures. The double free can allow buffer manipulation depending of how the regex is constructed. This issue affects all architectures and ABIs supported by the GNU C library.

Ref: A double free error occurs if free() is called multiple times with the same memory address. Calling free() twice on the same value causes a memory leak. If a program calls free() twice with the same arguments, it corrupts the program’s memory management data structures.

Official announcement: Please refer to the URL for details –

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8058

Preface: Arm Development Studio (Arm DS) is a suite of software tools designed for developing and debugging software for Arm-based SoCs (Systems on Chip). Thus, Arm DS optimizing software for Arm-based hardware, primarily in embedded systems and IoT devices. These tools help developers write, compile, and debug code for various Arm processors, including those found in SoCs. Applications built with Arm DS can be deployed to various targets, including microcontrollers, embedded Linux systems, and even Android devices.

Background: Arm Development Studio is available for both Windows and Linux operating systems. Specifically, it supports 64-bit x86 host platforms for both Windows 10 and Linux distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Ubuntu Desktop Editions 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS.

Redistributable Packages: For distributing applications built with Arm Development Studio, developers might need to include redistributable packages like those related to the Visual C++ runtime libraries, which are also provided as [.]dll files.

Vulnerability details: CVE-2025-32702: Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command (‘command injection’) in Visual Studio allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.

Official announcement: Please refer to the URL for details https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32702