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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 (36735)

EPSS 69% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH THREAT This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Chakra scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge, aka "Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability.". Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. Public exploit code available.

Memory Corruption Microsoft RCE +3
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 69% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH THREAT This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Chakra scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge, aka "Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability.". Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. Public exploit code available.

Memory Corruption Microsoft RCE +3
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 15% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Chakra scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge, aka "Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption 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.

Memory Corruption Microsoft RCE +3
NVD
EPSS 43% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

An remote code execution vulnerability exists when Microsoft Edge PDF Reader improperly handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Edge PDF Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Microsoft RCE Buffer Overflow +1
NVD
EPSS 13% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Internet Explorer improperly accesses objects in memory, aka "Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects Internet Explorer 11. 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.

Memory Corruption RCE Buffer Overflow +1
NVD
EPSS 15% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the ChakraCore scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft. 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.

Memory Corruption Microsoft RCE +3
NVD
EPSS 13% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects. 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.

Memory Corruption Microsoft RCE +3
NVD
EPSS 15% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the ChakraCore scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft. 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.

Memory Corruption Microsoft RCE +3
NVD
EPSS 13% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Internet Explorer improperly accesses objects in memory, aka "Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects Internet Explorer 9,. 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.

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

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists due to an integer overflow in Windows Subsystem for Linux, aka "Windows Subsystem for Linux Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Windows. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Integer Overflow Microsoft Buffer Overflow +2
NVD
EPSS 22% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Microsoft JET Database Engine that could allow remote code execution on an affected system, aka "Microsoft JET Database Engine Remote Code Execution. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Microsoft RCE Buffer Overflow +6
NVD
EPSS 23% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Microsoft JET Database Engine that could allow remote code execution on an affected system, aka "Microsoft JET Database Engine Remote Code Execution. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Microsoft RCE Buffer Overflow +6
NVD
EPSS 11% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the ChakraCore scripting engine handles objects in memory, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects. 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.

Memory Corruption RCE Buffer Overflow +1
NVD
EPSS 15% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the Chakra scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge, aka "Chakra Scripting Engine Memory Corruption 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.

Memory Corruption Microsoft RCE +3
NVD
EPSS 15% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft Edge, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects. 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.

Memory Corruption Microsoft RCE +3
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

stb stb_image.h 2.19, as used in catimg, Emscripten, and other products, has a heap-based buffer overflow in the stbi__out_gif_code function. 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.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Stb Image H +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Multiple buffer overflows in Intel AMT in Intel CSME firmware versions before version 12.0.5 may allow a privileged user to potentially execute arbitrary code with Intel AMT execution privilege via. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.7), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Intel RCE Buffer Overflow +14
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Buffer overflow in installer for Intel Extreme Tuning Utility before 6.4.1.21 may allow an authenticated user to potentially cause a buffer overflow potentially leading to a denial of service via. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Intel Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Escalation of privilege in Installer for Intel Extreme Tuning Utility before 6.4.1.21 may allow an authenticated user to potentially execute code or disclose information as administrator via local. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.7), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Intel Privilege Escalation Buffer Overflow +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Buffer overflow in input handling in Intel Extreme Tuning Utility before 6.4.1.21 may allow an authenticated user to potentially deny service to the application via local access. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Intel Buffer Overflow Extreme Tuning Utility
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

In radare2 before 2.9.0, a heap overflow vulnerability exists in the read_module_referenced_functions function in libr/anal/flirt.c via a crafted flirt signature file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Radare2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Multiple integer overflow and buffer overflow issues were discovered in spice-client's handling of LZ compressed frames. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Heap Overflow RCE Buffer Overflow +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.9
CRITICAL POC Act Now

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the credentials handler of video-core's HTTP server of Samsung SmartThings Hub STH-ETH-250-Firmware version 0.20.17. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Samsung Sth Eth 250 Firmware
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the /cameras/XXXX/clips handler of video-core's HTTP server of Samsung SmartThings Hub with Firmware version 0.20.17. 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 Samsung Sth Eth 250 Firmware
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

An exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the /cameras/XXXX/clips handler of video-core's HTTP server of Samsung SmartThings Hub with Firmware version 0.20.17. 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 Samsung Sth Eth 250 Firmware
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

A heap-based buffer overflow in PotPlayerMini.exe in PotPlayer 1.7.8556 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .wav file with large BytesPerSec and SamplesPerSec values, and a small. 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 RCE Buffer Overflow +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

_bson_iter_next_internal in bson-iter.c in libbson 1.12.0, as used in MongoDB mongo-c-driver and other products, has a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted bson buffer. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Libbson
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

libimageworsener.a in ImageWorsener 1.3.2 has a buffer overflow in the bmpr_read_rle_internal function in imagew-bmp.c. 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 Imageworsener
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

In WAVM through 2018-07-26, a crafted file sent to the WebAssembly Virtual Machine may cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of an. 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.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Webassembly Virtual Machine
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

In WAVM through 2018-07-26, a crafted file sent to the WebAssembly Virtual Machine may cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of an. 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.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Webassembly Virtual Machine
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

In WAVM through 2018-07-26, a crafted file sent to the WebAssembly Virtual Machine may cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of an. 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.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Webassembly Virtual Machine
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

In WAVM through 2018-07-26, a crafted file sent to the WebAssembly Virtual Machine may cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of an. 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.

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

SolarWinds DameWare Mini Remote Control before 12.1 has a Buffer Overflow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Dameware Mini Remote Control
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in Contiki-NG through 4.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0). No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Contiki Ng
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in Contiki-NG through 4.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Contiki Ng
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.1
MEDIUM This Month

An issue was discovered in Contiki-NG through 4.1. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Contiki Ng
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in Contiki-NG through 4.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0). No vendor patch available.

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

An issue was discovered in Contiki-NG through 4.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Contiki Ng
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Buffer overflow in Ubuntu14.04 ORCA (Online Receipt Computer Advantage) 4.8.0 (panda-client2) 1:1.4.9+p41-u4jma1 and earlier, Ubuntu14.04 ORCA (Online Receipt Computer Advantage) 5.0.0. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

In Artifex MuPDF 1.13.0, the pdf_get_xref_entry function in pdf/pdf-xref.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault in fz_write_data in fitz/output.c) via a crafted. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Mupdf
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

There is a missing check for length in the functions ReadDCMImage of coders/dcm.c and ReadPICTImage of coders/pict.c in ImageMagick 7.0.8-11, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), 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.

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

The function InsertRow in coders/cut.c in ImageMagick 7.0.7-37 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file due to an out-of-bounds write. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

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

jsish version 2.4.70 2.047 contains a CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in function jsi_ObjArrayLookup (jsiObj.c:274) that can result in Crash due to segmentation fault. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Jsish
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

NASM nasm-2.13.03 nasm- 2.14rc15 version 2.14rc15 and earlier contains a memory corruption (crashed) of nasm when handling a crafted file due to function assemble_file(inname, depend_ptr) at. 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 Netwide Assembler
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

jsish version 2.4.70 2.047 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in function _jsi_evalcode from jsiEval.c that can result in Crash due to segmentation fault. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow Jsish
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. 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.

Red Hat Buffer Overflow Ghostscript +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

An out of bound write can occur when patching an Openshift object using the 'oc patch' functionality in OpenShift Container Platform before 3.7. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, 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 Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 11% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

curl before version 7.61.1 is vulnerable to a buffer overrun in the NTLM authentication code. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Heap Overflow Buffer Overflow Libcurl +3
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24, attackers able to supply crafted PostScript files could use insufficient interpreter stack-size checking during error handling to crash the interpreter. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Ghostscript +7
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Artifex Ghostscript before 9.24. 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 Ghostscript Ubuntu Linux +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

It was found that glusterfs server is vulnerable to multiple stack based buffer overflows due to functions in server-rpc-fopc.c allocating fixed size buffers using 'alloca(3)'. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

RCE Buffer Overflow Stack Overflow +5
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in the HDF HDF5 1.8.20 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Hdf5
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Little CMS (aka Little Color Management System) 2.9 has an integer overflow in the AllocateDataSet function in cmscgats.c, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the SetData function via a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Little Cms Color Engine +5
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

GNU Libextractor through 1.7 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in EXTRACTOR_zip_extract_method() in zip_extractor.c. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Libextractor +1
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

GNOME GLib 2.56.1 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c, related to utf8_str(). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Glib +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Various out of bounds reads when handling responses in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to potentially crash the opensc library using programs. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Opensc
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

A single byte buffer overflow when handling responses from an esteid Card in sc_pkcs15emu_esteid_init in libopensc/pkcs15-esteid.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Opensc
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Several buffer overflows when handling responses from a CAC Card in cac_get_serial_nr_from_CUID in libopensc/card-cac.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Opensc
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Several buffer overflows when handling responses from an ePass 2003 Card in decrypt_response in libopensc/card-epass2003.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Opensc
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Several buffer overflows when handling responses from a Cryptoflex card in read_public_key in tools/cryptoflex-tool.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Opensc
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.6
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

A buffer overflow when handling string concatenation in util_acl_to_str in tools/util.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards to cause a denial of. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.6), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Opensc
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

ImageMagick 7.0.8-11 Q16 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the MagickCore/quantum-private.h PushShortPixel function when called from the coders/psd.c ParseImageResourceBlocks function. 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Imagemagick
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

ImageMagick 7.0.8-11 Q16 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the coders/psd.c ParseImageResourceBlocks function. 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Imagemagick +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

libdw in elfutils 0.173 checks the end of the attributes list incorrectly in dwarf_getabbrev in dwarf_getabbrev.c and dwarf_hasattr in dwarf_hasattr.c, leading to a heap-based buffer over-read and an. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Elfutils
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Several buffer overflows when handling responses from a Gemsafe V1 Smartcard in gemsafe_get_cert_len in libopensc/pkcs15-gemsafeV1.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Opensc
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Several buffer overflows when handling responses from a TCOS Card in tcos_select_file in libopensc/card-tcos.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted smartcards. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow Opensc
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

Several buffer overflows when handling responses from a Muscle Card in muscle_list_files in libopensc/card-muscle.c in OpenSC before 0.19.0-rc1 could be used by attackers able to supply crafted. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

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

Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc15 has a buffer over-read in x86/regflags.c. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Netwide Assembler
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in OpenJPEG 2.3.0. 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.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Openjpeg
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

SplashXPath::strokeAdjust in splash/SplashXPath.cc in Xpdf 4.00 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted pdf file, as demonstrated by pdftoppm. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Exiv2::Internal::PngChunk::parseTXTChunk in Exiv2 v0.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted image file, a different vulnerability than. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

newoffsets handling in ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip in tif_dirread.c in LibTIFF 4.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or. 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.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered on Tenda AC7 V15.03.06.44_CN, AC9 V15.03.05.19(6318)_CN, AC10 V15.03.06.23_CN, AC15 V15.03.05.19_CN, and AC18 V15.03.05.19(6318)_CN devices. 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 Tenda Ac18 Firmware +4
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

MediaComm Zip-n-Go before 4.95 has a Buffer Overflow via a crafted file. 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 Zip N Go
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

The libesedb_key_append_data function in libesedb_key.c in libesedb through 2018-04-01 allows remote attackers to cause a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted esedb 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Libesedb
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

The libesedb_catalog_definition_read function in libesedb_catalog_definition.c in libesedb through 2018-04-01 allows remote attackers to cause a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted esedb 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Libesedb
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

The libesedb_page_read_tags function in libesedb_page.c in libesedb through 2018-04-01 allows remote attackers to cause a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted esedb 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Libesedb
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

The libesedb_page_read_values function in libesedb_page.c in libesedb through 2018-04-01 allows remote attackers to cause a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted esedb 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Libesedb
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

The libfsclfs_block_read function in libfsclfs_block.c in libfsclfs before 2018-07-25 allows remote attackers to cause a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted clfs 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Libfsclfs
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in yurex_read in drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c in the Linux kernel before 4.17.7. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is 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 Linux Buffer Overflow +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 4.7
MEDIUM This Month

A Named Pipe Request Processing Out-of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan XG (12.0) could allow a local attacker to disclose sensitive information on. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.7). No vendor patch available.

Trend Micro Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

An Out-of-Bounds Read Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Trend Micro Security 2018 (Consumer) products could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Trend Micro Information Disclosure +5
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

A buffer underwrite vulnerability in get_line() (read.c) in fig2dev 3.2.7a allows an attacker to write prior to the beginning of the buffer via a crafted .fig file. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Ubuntu Linux +1
NVD
EPSS 32% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH THREAT This Week

Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.134 and earlier have an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Adobe Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow +4
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 7% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.134 and earlier have an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Adobe Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow +4
NVD
EPSS 11% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.134 and earlier have an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required.

Adobe Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow +5
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 before 19.1.6 and Photoshop CC 2017 before 18.1.6 have a memory corruption vulnerability. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Adobe RCE Buffer Overflow +1
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 before 19.1.6 and Photoshop CC 2017 before 18.1.6 have a memory corruption vulnerability. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Adobe RCE Buffer Overflow +1
NVD
EPSS 8% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2018.011.20055 and earlier, 2017.011.30096 and earlier, and 2015.006.30434 and earlier have an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Memory Corruption Adobe RCE +3
NVD
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