SSA-166747 V1.0: Scene File Parsing Vulnerability in Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Viewer before V2022.1

Risk Summary

<p>Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Viewer is affected by a memory corruption vulnerability that could be triggered when the application reads scene (.sce) files. If a user is tricked to open a malicious file with the affected application, this could lead to a crash, and potentially also to arbitrary code execution or data extraction on the target host system.</p> <p>Siemens has released an update for Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Viewer and recommends to update to the latest version to fix the vulnerability. Siemens recommends to avoid opening of untrusted files from unknown sources.</p>

Remediations

• Refer to Siemens ProductCERT advisory for patch and remediation guidance.

Affected Vendors

Affected Products (1)