KiCad buffer overflow vulnerability

Kicad is a free software for printed circuit board design from the KiCad Eda community. A security vulnerability exists in KiCad EDA, which stems from a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the Viewer gerber and excellon GCodeNumber parsing functions in KiCad EDA 6.0.1 and master branches. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability via a specially crafted gerber or excellon file that could lead to code execution.