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Buffer Overflow

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A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.

How It Works

A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions. This overwrites whatever data or code exists there, corrupting program state and potentially giving attackers control over execution flow.

Stack-based overflows are the most common variant. When a function allocates a fixed-size buffer on the stack and then copies user-controlled input without proper bounds checking, attackers can overflow past the buffer to overwrite the function's return address. When the function completes, instead of returning to legitimate code, execution jumps to attacker-specified memory containing malicious shellcode. Heap-based overflows work differently—they corrupt heap metadata like chunk size fields or free list pointers, leading to arbitrary memory writes when the allocator processes the corrupted structures.

Modern exploitation bypasses defensive mechanisms through techniques like Return-Oriented Programming (ROP), which chains together existing code snippets to avoid non-executable memory protections. Attackers may also use heap spraying to reliably position shellcode at predictable addresses, defeating address randomization.

Impact

  • Remote code execution — attacker gains ability to run arbitrary commands with the privileges of the vulnerable process
  • Privilege escalation — exploiting kernel or setuid program overflows to gain root/SYSTEM access
  • Denial of service — crashes and memory corruption that render systems unusable
  • Information disclosure — reading sensitive data from adjacent memory regions that should be inaccessible
  • Authentication bypass — overwriting security-critical variables like permission flags or user IDs

Real-World Examples

Fortinet FortiOS suffered a critical buffer overflow (CVE-2025-32756) that allowed unauthenticated remote attackers to execute code as root on firewalls and VPN gateways. Attackers actively exploited this to compromise enterprise network perimeters before patches were available.

The Slammer worm from 2003 exploited a stack overflow in Microsoft SQL Server, spreading to 75,000 hosts in ten minutes by sending a single malformed UDP packet that overwrote the return address with shellcode. No authentication was required.

OpenSSH historically contained a heap overflow in challenge-response authentication that allowed pre-authentication remote root compromise on Unix systems, demonstrating how memory corruption in privileged network services creates maximum impact scenarios.

Mitigation

  • Memory-safe languages — Rust, Go, and modern managed languages prevent buffer overflows by design through automatic bounds checking
  • Stack canaries — random values placed before return addresses that detect corruption before control transfer
  • Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) — randomizes memory locations making exploitation less reliable
  • Data Execution Prevention (DEP/NX) — marks memory regions as non-executable, preventing direct shellcode execution
  • Bounds checking — validate input sizes before copying, use safe functions like strncpy instead of strcpy
  • Fuzzing and static analysis — automated testing to discover overflows before deployment

Recent CVEs (36618)

EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 109. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Mozilla +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Mmemory safety bugs present in Firefox 109 and Firefox ESR 102.7. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Mozilla +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Members of the <code>DEVMODEW</code> struct set by the printer device driver weren't being validated and could have resulted in invalid values which in turn would cause the browser to attempt out of. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Mozilla +4
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

When encoding data from an <code>inputStream</code> in <code>xpcom</code> the size of the input being encoded was not correctly calculated potentially leading to an out of bounds memory write. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Mozilla +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Mozilla developers and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 108. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Mozilla +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Mozilla developers and the Mozilla Fuzzing Team reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 108 and Firefox ESR 102.6. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Mozilla +4
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Unexpected data returned from the Safe Browsing API could have led to memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Mozilla +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

Buffer overflow in Platform CLI component in Silicon Labs Gecko SDK v4.2.1 and earlier allows user to overwrite limited structures on the heap. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Gecko Software Development Kit
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

ReadyMedia (MiniDLNA) versions from 1.1.15 up to 1.3.2 is vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Readymedia
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

ASUS RT-AC86U’s specific cgi function has a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient validation for network packet header length. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Stack Overflow Buffer Overflow Rt Ac86U Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

OpenPrinting CUPS is an open source printing system. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Heap Overflow +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

Heap Buffer Overflow in the erofs_read_one_data function at data.c in erofs-utils v1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted erofs filesystem image. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow RCE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

Heap Buffer Overflow in the erofsfsck_dirent_iter function in fsck/main.c in erofs-utils v1.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted erofs filesystem image. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow RCE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

Janino 3.1.9 and earlier are subject to denial of service (DOS) attacks when using the expression evaluator.guess parameter name method. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

A Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') vulnerability in openSUSE libeconf allows for DoS via malformed configuration files5.2. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Libeconf
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

A Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') vulnerability in openSUSE libeconf leads to DoS via malformed config files.5.2. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Libeconf
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Controller 6000 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow via the Controller diagnostic web interface upload feature.80.230201a, before vCR8.70.230201a, before vCR8.60.230201b, before vCR8.50.230201a, all. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Controller 6000 Firmware
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

A vulnerbility was found in OpenSC. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow Opensc Enterprise Linux
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the AddWlanMacList interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the Edit_BasicSSID interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the AddMacList interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the SetAPWifiorLedInfoById interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the SetMobileAPInfoById interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the Edit_BasicSSID_5G interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the DelDNSHnList interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the ipqos_lanip_editlist interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the UpdateMacClone interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the EdittriggerList interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the UpdateWanParams interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the ipqos_lanip_dellist interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the DelSTList interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the EditvsList interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.2
HIGH POC This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the DeltriggerList interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the DelvsList interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

H3C Magic R300 version R300-2100MV100R004 was discovered to contain a stack overflow via the UpdateSnat interface at /goform/aspForm. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Magic R300 2100M Firmware
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.3. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability could allow attackers to read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Linux +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

TOTOLINK X5000R V9.1.0u.6118_B20201102 and V9.1.0u.6369_B20230113 contains a post-authentication buffer overflow via parameter sPort/ePort in the addEffect function. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow X5000r Firmware
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Out of bounds memory access in Mojo in Google Chrome prior to 114.0.5735.90 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Google +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Out of bounds write in Swiftshader in Google Chrome prior to 114.0.5735.90 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Google +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

RIOT-OS, an operating system for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, contains a network stack with the ability to process 6LoWPAN frames. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Denial Of Service +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

RIOT-OS, an operating system for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, contains a network stack with the ability to process 6LoWPAN frames. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Riot
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in MindSpore 2.0.0-alpha/2.0.0-rc1. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Mindspore
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Qt before 5.15.15, 6.x before 6.2.9, and 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Copy without Size Check vulnerability could allow attackers to overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory.

Buffer Overflow Qt
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Tenda AC6 US_AC6V1.0BR_V15.03.05.19. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Stack Overflow Buffer Overflow Tenda +1
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Sofia-SIP is an open-source SIP User-Agent library, compliant with the IETF RFC3261 specification. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Heap Overflow Sofia Sip +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

NetScaler file parser crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.5 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.13 allows denial of service via crafted capture file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

BLF file parser crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.5 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.13 allows denial of service via crafted capture file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

VMS TCPIPtrace file parser crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.5 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.13 allows denial of service via crafted capture file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

Candump log parser crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.5 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.13 allows denial of service via crafted capture file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

BLF file parser crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.5 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.13 allows denial of service via crafted capture file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

A heap-based buffer overflow issue was discovered in libjpeg-turbo in h2v2_merged_upsample_internal() function of jdmrgext.c file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Buffer Overflow Heap Overflow Libjpeg Turbo
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Twister Antivirus 8. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Twister Antivirus
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 29% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL KEV THREAT Act Now

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the ID processing function in Zyxel ATP series firmware versions 4.32 through 5.36 Patch 1, USG FLEX series firmware versions 4.50 through 5.36 Patch 1, USG FLEX. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Zyxel +23
NVD
EPSS 28% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL KEV THREAT Act Now

A buffer overflow vulnerability in the notification function in Zyxel ATP series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.36 Patch 1, USG FLEX series firmware versions 4.60 through 5.36 Patch 1, USG FLEX. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Zyxel +23
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation MELSEC iQ-F Series CPU modules and MELSEC iQ-R Series CPU modules allows a. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. This Buffer Copy without Size Check vulnerability could allow attackers to overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory.

Buffer Overflow RCE Denial Of Service +39
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.3
HIGH This Week

A buffer overflow in the component hl.exe of Valve Half-Life up to 5433873 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges by supplying crafted parameters. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.3), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow RCE +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

The `Toybox.Ant.BurstPayload.add` API method in CIQ API version 2.2.0 through 4.1.7 suffers from a type confusion vulnreability, which can result in an out-of-bounds write operation. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Connect Iq
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

The GarminOS TVM component in CIQ API version 1.0.0 through 4.1.7 is vulnerable to various buffer overflows when loading binary resources. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Connect Iq
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

The `Toybox.Ant.GenericChannel.enableEncryption` API method in CIQ API version 3.2.0 through 4.1.7 does not validate its parameter, which can result in buffer overflows when copying various. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Connect Iq
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

The `Toybox.GenericChannel.setDeviceConfig` API method in CIQ API version 1.2.0 through 4.1.7 does not validate its parameter, which can result in buffer overflows when copying various attributes. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Connect Iq
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

The `news` MonkeyC operation code in CIQ API version 1.0.0 through 4.1.7 fails to check that string resources are not extending past the end of the expected sections. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Connect Iq
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

The `Toybox.Cryptography.Cipher.initialize` API method in CIQ API version 3.0.0 through 4.1.7 does not validate its parameters, which can result in buffer overflows when copying data. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Connect Iq
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

The `Toybox.Graphics.BufferedBitmap.initialize` API method in CIQ API version 2.3.0 through 4.1.7 does not validate its parameters, which can result in integer overflows when allocating the. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Connect Iq
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Buffer overflow vulnerability in the multiple setting pages of SolarView Compact SV-CPT-MC310 versions prior to Ver.8.10 and SV-CPT-MC310F versions prior to Ver.8.10 allows a remote authenticated. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Sv Cpt Mc310F Firmware +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

Out-of-bounds Read in GitHub repository gpac/gpac prior to 2.2.2. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Gpac
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Stack-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository gpac/gpac prior to 2.2.2. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Stack Overflow Buffer Overflow Gpac
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

In Eclipse Openj9 before version 0.38.0, in the implementation of the shared cache (which is enabled by default in OpenJ9 builds) the size of a string is not properly checked against the size of the. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Copy without Size Check vulnerability could allow attackers to overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory.

Buffer Overflow Openj9
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Dell PowerEdge 14G server BIOS versions prior to 2.18.1 and Dell Precision BIOS versions prior to 2.18.2, contain an Out of Bounds write vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation RCE +32
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM This Month

An issue was discovered in Qt 5.x before 5.15.14, 6.x before 6.2.9, and 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.1. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Qt
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability was found in the libtiff library. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Libtiff
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

A vulnerability was found in the libtiff library. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Libtiff macOS
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

netconsd prior to v0.2 was vulnerable to an integer overflow in its parse_packet function. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability could allow attackers to write data beyond allocated buffer boundaries leading to code execution or crashes.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Netconsd
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

An error in BigInt conversion to Number in Hermes prior to commit a6dcafe6ded8e61658b40f5699878cd19a481f80 could have been used by a malicious attacker to execute arbitrary code due to an. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability could allow attackers to write data beyond allocated buffer boundaries leading to code execution or crashes.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow RCE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

sysstat through 12.7.2 allows a multiplication integer overflow in check_overflow in common.c. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Sysstat +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

A stack-based buffer overflow in the ChangeFriendlyName() function of Belkin Smart Outlet V2 F7c063 firmware_2.00.11420.OWRT.PVT_SNSV2 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +1
NVD
EPSS 11% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC THREAT Act Now

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based user interface of certain Cisco Small Business Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Cisco +230
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based user interface of certain Cisco Small Business Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Cisco +230
NVD
EPSS 10% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC THREAT Act Now

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based user interface of certain Cisco Small Business Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Cisco +230
NVD
EPSS 10% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC THREAT Act Now

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based user interface of certain Cisco Small Business Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Cisco +230
NVD
EPSS 10% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC THREAT Act Now

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based user interface of certain Cisco Small Business Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Cisco +230
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based user interface of certain Cisco Small Business Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Cisco +230
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based user interface of certain Cisco Small Business Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Cisco +230
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based user interface of certain Cisco Small Business Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Cisco +230
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based user interface of certain Cisco Small Business Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Cisco +230
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A potential heap based buffer overflow was found in _bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables() in bfd/elf.c. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow Binutils
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

There exists a heap buffer overflow in nasm 2.16.02rc1 (GitHub commit: b952891). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Netwide Assembler
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

An arbitrary file write vulnerability in Jenkins Pipeline Utility Steps Plugin 2.15.2 and earlier allows attackers able to provide crafted archives as parameters to create or replace arbitrary files. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Jenkins +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

D-Link DIR-605L firmware version 1.17B01 BETA is vulnerable to stack overflow via /goform/formTcpipSetup,. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow D-Link +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s XFS file system in how a user restores an XFS image after failure (with a dirty log journal). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Linux +7
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In unflattenString8 of Sensor.cpp, there is a possible out of bounds read due to a heap buffer overflow. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability could allow attackers to read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Google +1
NVD
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