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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 (36671)

EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in the arenavec crate through 2021-01-12 for Rust. 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.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Arenavec
NVD
EPSS 61% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL KEV THREAT Act Now

On BIG-IP versions 16.0.x before 16.0.1.1, 15.1.x before 15.1.2.1, 14.1.x before 14.1.4, 13.1.x before 13.1.3.6, and 12.1.x before 12.1.5.3, undisclosed requests to a virtual server may be. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Big Ip Access Policy Manager +13
NVD
EPSS 73% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

On BIG-IP versions 16.0.x before 16.0.1.1, 15.1.x before 15.1.2.1, 14.1.x before 14.1.4, 13.1.x before 13.1.3.6, 12.1.x before 12.1.5.3, and 11.6.x before 11.6.5.3, a malicious HTTP response to an. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Big Ip Access Policy Manager +13
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

There's a flaw in OpenEXR's deep tile sample size calculations in versions before 3.0.0-beta. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Integer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to cause unexpected behavior through arithmetic overflow.

Buffer Overflow Integer Overflow Openexr +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A heap overflow issue was found in Redis in versions before 5.0.10, before 6.0.9 and before 6.2.0 when using a heap allocator other than jemalloc or glibc's malloc, leading to potential out of bound. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), 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 Redis
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Mozilla developers reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 86. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 86 and Firefox ESR 78.8. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), 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.

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

By causing a transition on a parent node by removing a CSS rule, an invalid property for a marker could have been applied, resulting in 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.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Mozilla +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.1
HIGH This Week

A texture upload of a Pixel Buffer Object could have confused the WebGL code to skip binding the buffer used to unpack it, resulting in memory corruption and a potentially exploitable information. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the SGI format buffer size processing functionality of Accusoft ImageGear 19.8. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Imagegear
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the SGI Format Buffer Size Processing functionality of Accusoft ImageGear 19.8. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Imagegear
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the TIFF header count-processing functionality of Accusoft ImageGear 19.8. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Imagegear
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A flaw was found in OpenEXR's B44 uncompression functionality in versions before 3.0.0-beta. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Integer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to cause unexpected behavior through arithmetic overflow.

Buffer Overflow Integer Overflow Openexr +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

There is a flaw in OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.0-beta. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Integer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to cause unexpected behavior through arithmetic overflow.

Buffer Overflow Integer Overflow Openexr +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

There's a flaw in OpenEXR in versions before 3.0.0-beta. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Integer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to cause unexpected behavior through arithmetic overflow.

Buffer Overflow Integer Overflow Openexr +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF 10.1.0.37527. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Information Disclosure +2
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF 10.1.0.37527. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Information Disclosure +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF 10.1.0.37527. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF 10.1.0.37527. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Information Disclosure +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF 10.1.0.37527. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Information Disclosure +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF 10.1.0.37527. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Information Disclosure +2
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF 10.1.0.37527. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Information Disclosure +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF 10.1.0.37527. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Information Disclosure +2
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PhantomPDF 10.1.0.37527. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Information Disclosure +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

A remote buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in some Aruba Instant Access Point (IAP) products in version(s): Aruba Instant 6.4.x: 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.17 and below; Aruba Instant 6.5.x: 6.5.4.16. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), 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 Aruba Instant +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Xerox Phaser 6510 before 64.65.51 and 64.59.11 (Bridge), WorkCentre 6515 before 65.65.51 and 65.59.11 (Bridge), VersaLink B400 before 37.65.51 and 37.59.01 (Bridge), B405 before 38.65.51 and 38.59.01. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Phaser 6510 Firmware +23
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

This vulnerability allows local attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Parallels Desktop 16.0.1-48919. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Information Disclosure +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Parallels Desktop 16.0.1-48919. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Parallels Desktop
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NETGEAR R6400 and R6700 firmware version 1.0.4.98 routers. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Netgear Stack Overflow +36
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A remote buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in some Aruba Instant Access Point (IAP) products in version(s): Aruba Instant 6.4.x: 6.4.4.8-4.2.4.17 and below; Aruba Instant 6.5.x: 6.5.4.16. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This Buffer Copy without Size Check vulnerability could allow attackers to overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory.

Buffer Overflow Aruba Instant +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM KEV THREAT This Month

An improper boundary check in DSP driver prior to SMR Mar-2021 Release 1 allows out of bounds memory access. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.7), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Android
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM POC KEV THREAT This Month

An incorrect implementation handling file descriptor in dpu driver prior to SMR Mar-2021 Release 1 results in memory corruption leading to kernel panic. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Use After Free Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM POC This Month

A flaw was found in upx canPack in p_lx_elf.cpp in UPX 3.96. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.6), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Upx
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

A flaw was found in GNU Binutils 2.35.1, where there is a heap-based buffer overflow in _bfd_elf_slurp_secondary_reloc_section in elf.c due to the number of symbols not calculated correctly. 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 Binutils Cloud Backup +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities when parsing a specially crafted file in Esri ArcReader, ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine 10.8.1 (and earlier) and ArcGIS Pro 2.7 (and earlier) allow an. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Stack Overflow +4
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM This Month

Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities when parsing a specially crafted file in Esri ArcGIS Server 10.8.1 (and earlier) allows an authenticated attacker with specialized permissions to achieve. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Arcgis Server
NVD
EPSS 9% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

A flaw was found in libmicrohttpd. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), 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 Libmicrohttpd Enterprise Linux +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.6
HIGH This Week

Rockwell Automation MicroLogix 1400 Version 21.6 and below may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to send a specially crafted Modbus packet allowing the attacker to retrieve or modify random. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.6), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Rockwell Micrologix 1400 Firmware
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.6
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability in the Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) protocol processing of Cisco IOS XE Wireless Controller Software for the Cisco Catalyst 9000 Family Wireless. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.6), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Apple Denial Of Service +2
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A vulnerability in the Easy Virtual Switching System (VSS) feature of Cisco IOS XE Software for Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches could allow an. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Cisco +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.4
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability in the multicast DNS (mDNS) gateway feature of Cisco Aironet Series Access Points Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.4), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Cisco Denial Of Service +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.1
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability in the vDaemon process in Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a buffer overflow on an affected device. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Apple Denial Of Service +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in Contiki through 3.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Integer Overflow Contiki
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The patch for CVE-2020-17380/CVE-2020-25085 was found to be ineffective, thus making QEMU vulnerable to the out-of-bounds read/write access issues previously found in the SDHCI controller emulation. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.7), 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 RCE Denial Of Service +4
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.4
HIGH This Week

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a stack-based buffer overflow by an unauthenticated attacker. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Netgear Memory Corruption +12
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.4
HIGH This Week

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a stack-based buffer overflow by an authenticated user. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Netgear Memory Corruption +12
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.4
HIGH This Week

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a stack-based buffer overflow by an authenticated user. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Netgear Memory Corruption +12
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.4
HIGH This Week

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a stack-based buffer overflow by an authenticated user. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Netgear Memory Corruption +13
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by a buffer overflow by an authenticated user. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Netgear R6700 Firmware +79
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In drivers/pci/hotplug/rpadlpar_sysfs.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8, the RPA PCI Hotplug driver has a user-tolerable buffer overflow when writing a new device name to the driver from. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.7), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Buffer Copy without Size Check vulnerability could allow attackers to overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory.

Buffer Overflow Linux Linux Kernel +4
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Buffer Copy without Size Check vulnerability could allow attackers to overflow a buffer to corrupt adjacent memory.

Buffer Overflow Linux Linux Kernel +6
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Pillow
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Pillow
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Pillow +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.1.1. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Pillow
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.2
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco RV132W ADSL2+ Wireless-N VPN Routers and Cisco RV134W VDSL2 Wireless-AC VPN Routers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Cisco +4
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

FastStone Image Viewer <= 7.5 is affected by a user mode write access violation at 0x00402d7d, triggered when a user opens or views a malformed CUR file that is mishandled by FSViewer.exe. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

FastStone Image Viewer <= 7.5 is affected by a user mode write access violation at 0x00402d8a, triggered when a user opens or views a malformed CUR file that is mishandled by FSViewer.exe. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

FastStone Image Viewer <= 7.5 is affected by a user mode write access violation near NULL at 0x005bdfcb, triggered when a user opens or views a malformed CUR file that is mishandled by FSViewer.exe. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

FastStone Image Viewer v.<= 7.5 is affected by a Stack-based Buffer Overflow at 0x005BDF49, affecting the CUR file parsing functionality (BITMAPINFOHEADER Structure, 'BitCount' file format field),. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Memory Corruption +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

rtw_wx_set_scan in drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.6 allows writing beyond the end of the ->ssid[] array. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is 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.

Buffer Overflow Linux Memory Corruption +12
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

Heap buffer overflow in tab groups in Google Chrome prior to 89.0.4389.90 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. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Google +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability has been identified in Solid Edge SE2020 (All Versions < SE2020MP13), Solid Edge SE2021 (All Versions < SE2021MP3). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Solid Edge
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A vulnerability has been identified in Solid Edge SE2020 (All versions < SE2020MP13), Solid Edge SE2021 (All Versions < SE2021MP4). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is 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.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Solid Edge
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A vulnerability has been identified in RUGGEDCOM RM1224 (All versions >= V4.3 and < V6.4), SCALANCE M-800 (All versions >= V4.3 and < V6.4), SCALANCE S615 (All versions >= V4.3 and < V6.4), SCALANCE. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow RCE Stack Overflow +16
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM This Month

When booting a Zync-7000 SOC device from nand flash memory, the nand driver in the ROM does not validate the inputs when reading in any parameters in the nand’s parameter page. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Zynq 7000S Firmware +1
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Adobe Photoshop versions 21.2.5 (and earlier) and 22.2 (and earlier) are affected by a Memory Corruption vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 8% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Animate version 21.0.3 (and earlier) is affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow RCE Heap Overflow +2
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Animate version 21.0.3 (and earlier) is affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Animate version 21.0.3 (and earlier) is affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Animate version 21.0.3 (and earlier) is affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Animate version 21.0.3 (and earlier) is affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Animate version 21.0.3 (and earlier) is affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Animate version 21.0.3 (and earlier) is affected by a Memory Corruption vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is 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.

Buffer Overflow RCE Memory Corruption +2
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EPSS 3% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Adobe Photoshop versions 21.2.5 (and earlier) and 22.2 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in the CoolType library. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Memory Corruption +2
NVD
EPSS 21% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Framemaker version 2020.0.1 (and earlier) is affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow RCE Information Disclosure +2
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

A flaw was found in gnutls. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Use After Free vulnerability could allow attackers to access freed memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Use After Free Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption +4
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EPSS 4% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

A flaw was found in gnutls. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Use After Free Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption +6
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EPSS 1% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

An issue was discovered in the fltk crate before 0.15.3 for Rust. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Fltk
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in iscsi_snapshot_comm_core in Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) before 6.2.3-25426-3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted web requests. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Synology RCE +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A CWE-119:Improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer vulnerability exists in PowerLogic ION7400, PM8000 and ION9000 (All versions prior to V3.0.0), which could cause the. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Powerlogic Ion7400 Firmware +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A CWE-119:Improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer vulnerability exists in PowerLogic ION8650, ION8800, ION7650, ION7700/73xx, and ION83xx/84xx/85xx/8600 (see security. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Powerlogic Ion8650 Firmware Powerlogic Ion8800 Firmware +9
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A CWE-119:Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability exists in Interactive Graphical SCADA System (IGSS) Definition (Def.exe) V15.0.0.21041 and prior, which. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is 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 Interactive Graphical Scada System
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A CWE-119:Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability exists in Interactive Graphical SCADA System (IGSS) Definition (Def.exe) V15.0.0.21041 and prior, which. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is 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 Interactive Graphical Scada System
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A CWE-119:Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability exists in Interactive Graphical SCADA System (IGSS) Definition (Def.exe) V15.0.0.21041 and prior, which. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is 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 RCE Interactive Graphical Scada System
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A CWE-119:Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability exists in Interactive Graphical SCADA System (IGSS) Definition (Def.exe) V15.0.0.21041 and prior, which. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is 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 RCE Interactive Graphical Scada System
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Windows Graphics Component Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Buffer Overflow Microsoft Windows 10 +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

In GenerateFaceMask of face.cc, there is a possible out of bounds write due to an incorrect bounds check. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation Memory Corruption +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

In sound_trigger_event_alloc of platform.h, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a heap buffer overflow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation Memory Corruption +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

In convertToHidl of convert.cpp, there is a possible out of bounds read due to uninitialized data from ReturnFrameworkMessage. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Google Information Disclosure +1
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