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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 (36711)

EPSS 3% CVSS 8.1
HIGH POC This Week

Cacti through 1.2.7 is affected by multiple instances of lib/functions.php unsafe deserialization of user-controlled data to populate arrays. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

PHP Buffer Overflow Deserialization +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

While Skipping unknown IES, EMM is reading the buffer even if the no of bytes to read are more than message length which may cause device to shutdown in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute,. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Information Disclosure +48
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Incorrect length used while validating the qsee log buffer sent from HLOS which could then lead to remap conflict in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware +49
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Possible out of bounds write in a MT SMS/SS scenario due to improper validation of array index in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware +53
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

HLOS could corrupt CPZ page table memory for S1 managed VMs in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile,. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Memory Corruption +13
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Out of bound read would occur while trying to read action category and action ID without validating the action length of the Rx Frame body in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability could allow attackers to read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Information Disclosure +35
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Out of bound write in TZ while copying the secure dump structure on HLOS provided buffer as a part of memory dump in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware +39
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

Driver may access an invalid address while processing IO control due to lack of check of address validation in Snapdragon Connectivity in QCA6390. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Qca6390 Firmware
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Possible integer overflow while multiplying two integers of 32 bit in QDCM API of get display modes as there is no check on the maximum mode count in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Integer Overflow Qualcomm Buffer Overflow +39
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Snapshot of IB can lead to invalid address access due to missing check for size in the related function in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity,. 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 Qualcomm Apq8017 Firmware +40
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Accessing data buffer beyond the available data while parsing ogg clip can lead to null-pointer dereference and then memory corruption in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity,. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Information Disclosure +37
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Buffer overflow can occur due to usage of wrong datatype and missing length check before copying into buffer in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity,. 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 Qualcomm Apq8017 Firmware +39
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Lack of check of data truncation on user supplied data in kernel leads to buffer overflow in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice &. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Integer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to cause unexpected behavior through arithmetic overflow.

Integer Overflow Qualcomm Buffer Overflow +36
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Possibility of memory overflow while decoding GSNDCP compressed mode PDU in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile,. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware +54
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Race condition between the camera functions due to lack of resource lock which will lead to memory corruption and UAF issue in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity,. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Apq8009 Firmware +40
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Position determination accuracy may be degraded due to wrongly decoded information in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile,. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Apq8053 Firmware +47
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

make_arrow in arrow.c in Xfig fig2dev 3.2.7b allows a segmentation fault and out-of-bounds write because of an integer overflow via a large arrow type. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Fig2Dev +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

An exploitable heap overflow vulnerability exists in the JPEG2000 parsing functionality of LEADTOOLS 20.0.2019.3.15. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Heap Overflow RCE +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

An exploitable heap out of bounds write vulnerability exists in the UI tag parsing functionality of the DICOM image format of LEADTOOLS 20.0.2019.3.15. 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 +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An exploitable information disclosure vulnerability exists in the DICOM packet-parsing functionality of LEADTOOLS libltdic.so, version 20.0.2019.3.15. 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 Leadtools
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing 32-bit Arm guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) because certain bit iteration is mishandled. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Xen +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Firecracker vsock implementation buffer overflow in versions 0.18.0 and 0.19.0. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

Yabasic 2.86.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the yylex() function in flex.c via a crafted BASIC source file. 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 Yabasic
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Type confusion in xsltNumberFormatGetMultipleLevel prior to libxslt 1.1.33 could allow attackers to potentially exploit heap corruption via crafted XML data. 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 Libxslt +1
NVD
EPSS 8% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the VBScript engine handles objects in memory, aka 'VBScript Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. 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 +1
NVD
EPSS 12% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Windows Media Player when it fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Media Player Information Disclosure Vulnerability'. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability could allow attackers to read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries.

Buffer Overflow Microsoft Information Disclosure +1
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Windows Media Player when it fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Windows Media Player Information Disclosure Vulnerability'. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability could allow attackers to read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries.

Buffer Overflow Microsoft Information Disclosure +1
NVD
EPSS 17% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows font library improperly handles specially crafted embedded fonts, aka 'Win32k Graphics Remote Code Execution Vulnerability'. 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 Microsoft RCE +9
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows GDI component improperly discloses the contents of its memory, aka 'Windows GDI Information Disclosure Vulnerability'. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability could allow attackers to read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries.

Buffer Overflow Microsoft Information Disclosure +8
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when the Windows GDI component improperly discloses the contents of its memory, aka 'Windows GDI Information Disclosure Vulnerability'. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability could allow attackers to read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries.

Buffer Overflow Microsoft Information Disclosure +8
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Out of bounds read in SQLite in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Google Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure +8
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Out of bounds read in SQLite in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Google Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure +8
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Uninitialized data in rendering in Google Chrome on Android prior to 79.0.3945.79 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.

Google Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption +7
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Integer overflow in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Google Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow +7
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Out of bounds write in JavaScript in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox 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.

Google Buffer Overflow RCE +8
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Out of bounds write in SQLite in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 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. This Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability could allow attackers to write data beyond allocated buffer boundaries leading to code execution or crashes.

Google Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption +15
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Type confusion in JavaScript in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 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. This Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability could allow attackers to write data beyond allocated buffer boundaries leading to code execution or crashes.

Google Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption +9
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Out of bounds write in JavaScript in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 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.

Google Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption +7
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Buffer overflow in password manager in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code 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.

Google Buffer Overflow RCE +7
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Out of bounds memory access in JavaScript in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.108 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.

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

Out of bounds memory access in JavaScript in Google Chrome prior to 75.0.3770.80 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.

Google Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM POC This Month

A potential vulnerability has been reported in Lenovo Power Management Driver versions prior to 1.67.17.48 leading to a buffer overflow which could cause a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Lenovo +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

In the macho_parse_file functionality in macho/macho.c of YARA 3.11.0, command_size may be inconsistent with the real size. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

An issue was discovered in libsixel 1.8.2. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

An issue was discovered in libsixel 1.8.2. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

An issue was discovered in libsixel 1.8.2. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Integer Overflow Libsixel
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

An issue was discovered in libsixel 1.8.2. 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 Libsixel
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

HTMLDOC 1.9.7 allows a stack-based buffer overflow in the hd_strlcpy() function in string.c (when called from render_contents in ps-pdf.cxx) via a crafted HTML document. 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 Memory Corruption Htmldoc +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

In the Linux kernel 5.0.21, mounting a crafted f2fs filesystem image can lead to slab-out-of-bounds read access in f2fs_build_segment_manager in fs/f2fs/segment.c, related to init_min_max_mtime in. 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 Linux Information Disclosure +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

In array_find of array.c, there is a possible out-of-bounds read due to an incorrect bounds check. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Google Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In DeepCopy of btif_av.cc, there is a possible out of bounds read due to improper casting. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability could allow attackers to read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries.

Google Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

In device_class_to_int of device_class.cc, there is a possible out of bounds read due to improper casting. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Google Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

In ihevcd_ref_list of ihevcd_ref_list.c, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Google Buffer Overflow RCE +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

n ihevcd_parse_slice_data of ihevcd_parse_slice.c, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Google Buffer Overflow RCE +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

In setCpuVulkanInUse of GpuStats.cpp, there is possible memory corruption due to a use after free. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Privilege Escalation Buffer Overflow +4
NVD
EPSS 14% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

There is an overflow bug in the x64_64 Montgomery squaring procedure used in exponentiation with 512-bit moduli. 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.

OpenSSL Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow +8
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Insufficient checks in the USB packet handling of the ShapeShift KeepKey hardware wallet before firmware 6.2.2 allow out-of-bounds writes in the .bss segment via crafted messages. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow RCE Memory Corruption +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 97% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC KEV PATCH THREAT Act Now

OpenSLP as used in ESXi and the Horizon DaaS appliances has a heap overwrite issue. 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.

Buffer Overflow VMware Memory Corruption +16
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

In all versions of libyang before 1.0-r5, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way libyang parses YANG files with a leaf of type "identityref". Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Stack Overflow +4
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

In all versions of libyang before 1.0-r5, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way libyang parses YANG files with a leaf of type "bits". Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Stack Overflow +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

An out-of-bounds read was discovered in OpenCV before 4.1.1. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Opencv +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.6
HIGH POC This Week

An exploitable out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in AMD ATIDXX64.DLL driver, version 26.20.13001.29010. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.6), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Amd VMware +4
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.1
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

fpregs_state_valid in arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h in the Linux kernel before 5.4.2, when GCC 9 is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

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

OpenDetex 2.8.5 has a Buffer Overflow in TexOpen in detex.l because of an incorrect sprintf. 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 Opendetex
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

read_textobject in read.c in Xfig fig2dev 3.2.7b has a stack-based buffer overflow because of an incorrect sscanf. 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 Memory Corruption Xfig
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Insufficient boundary checks when processing a string in mb_ereg_replace allows access to out-of-bounds memory.30.12, all versions between 4.0.0 and 4.8.5, all versions between 4.9.0 and 4.23.1, as. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, 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 Hhvm
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Improper handling of close_notify alerts can result in an out-of-bounds read in AsyncSSLSocket.11.04.00. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Folly
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the igcore19d.dll BMP parser of the ImageGear 19.3.0 library. 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 +1
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the igcore19d.dll GEM Raster parser of the Accusoft ImageGear 19.3.0 library. 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 RCE Memory Corruption +1
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the igcore19d.dll TIFdecodethunderscan function of Accusoft ImageGear 19.3.0 library. 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 RCE Memory Corruption +1
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

An exploitable out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the igcore19d.dll PNG header-parser of the Accusoft ImageGear 19.3.0 library. 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 RCE Memory Corruption +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

process_certificate in tls1.c in Cameron Hamilton-Rich axTLS through 2.1.5 has a Buffer Overflow via a crafted TLS certificate handshake message with zero certificates. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Axtls
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

freeFTPd 1.0.8 has a Post-Authentication Buffer Overflow via a crafted SIZE command (this is exploitable even if logging is disabled). Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Freeftpd
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

The asn1_signature function in asn1.c in Cameron Hamilton-Rich axTLS through 2.1.5 has a Buffer Overflow that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Axtls
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Buffer overflow vulnerability in Autodesk FBX Software Development Kit version 2019.5. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is 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 RCE Fbx Software Development Kit
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel before 5.3.9, there are multiple out-of-bounds write bugs that can be caused by a malicious USB device in the Linux kernel HID drivers, aka CID-d9d4b1e46d95. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow Microsoft Linux +2
NVD
EPSS 51% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC THREAT Emergency

Anviz CrossChex access control management software 4.3.8.0 and 4.3.12 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability. 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 Crosschex
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

SMPlayer 19.5.0 has a buffer overflow via a long .m3u file. 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 Smplayer
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.6
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in OpenSC through 0.19.0 and 0.20.x through 0.20.0-rc3. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.6), 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 Opensc
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in OpenSC through 0.19.0 and 0.20.x through 0.20.0-rc3. 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 Opensc +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

An issue was discovered in amqp_handle_input in amqp_connection.c in rabbitmq-c 0.9.0. 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.

Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption Rabbitmq C +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

Huawei Atlas 300, Atlas 500 have a buffer overflow vulnerability. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Huawei Buffer Overflow Atlas 300 Firmware +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

P30, Mate 20, P30 Pro smartphones with software of versions earlier than ELLE-AL00B 9.1.0.193(C00E190R1P21), versions earlier than Hima-AL00B 9.1.0.135(C00E200R2P1), versions earlier than VOGUE-AL00A. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE P30 Firmware +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

P30 smartphones with versions earlier than ELLE-AL00B 9.1.0.193(C00E190R1P21) have an out of bounds read vulnerability. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure P30 Firmware
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

In the Linux kernel 5.0.21, mounting a crafted btrfs filesystem image can lead to slab-out-of-bounds write access in index_rbio_pages in fs/btrfs/raid56.c. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Linux Buffer Overflow Memory Corruption +1
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 17% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A heap overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel, all versions 3.x.x and 4.x.x before 4.18.0, in Marvell WiFi chip driver. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Linux +6
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the Linux kernel, version kernel-2.6.32, in Marvell WiFi chip driver. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Stack Overflow Buffer Overflow +5
NVD
EPSS 8% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the Linux kernel, all versions 3.x.x and 4.x.x before 4.18.0, in Marvell WiFi chip driver. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Linux +7
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

In the Linux kernel before 5.2, a setxattr operation, after a mount of a crafted ext4 image, can cause a slab-out-of-bounds write access because of an ext4_xattr_set_entry use-after-free in. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Use After Free Linux +4
NVD GitHub
EPSS 9% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel, version kernel-2.6.32, in Marvell WiFi chip driver. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Linux +7
NVD
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