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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 (36761)

EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for GZS Token (GZS), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary user. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Gzstoken
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for Goutex (GTX), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary user to. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Goutex
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for GoodTo (GTO), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary user to. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Goodto
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for Jitech (JTH), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary user to. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Jitech
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for CTB, an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary user to any. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Ctb
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for Betcash (BC), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary user to. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Betcash
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for Carbon Exchange Coin Token (CEC), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of. 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.

Integer Overflow Microsoft Buffer Overflow +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for FIBToken (FIB), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary user. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Fibtoken
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for ETHEREUMBLACK (ETCBK), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Ethereumblack
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for Coffeecoin (COFFEE), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Coffeecoin
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for CCindex10 (T10), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary user. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Ccindextoken
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for EncryptedToken (ECC), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Encryptedtoken
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for DYchain (DYC), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary user. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Dychain
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mintToken function of a smart contract implementation for AzurionToken (AZU), an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Azuriontoken
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 3.3
LOW PATCH Monitor

The alarm_timer_nsleep function in kernel/time/alarmtimer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.3 has an integer overflow via a large relative timeout because ktime_add_safe is not used. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Integer Overflow Linux Buffer Overflow +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

The mint function of a smart contract implementation for Link Platform (LNK), an Ethereum ERC20 token, has an integer overflow that allows the owner of the contract to set the balance of an arbitrary. 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.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Linktoken
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in jpeg-compressor 0.1. 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 Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in jpeg-compressor 0.1. 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 Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

An issue was discovered in gpmf-parser 1.1.2. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Gpmf Parser
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

An issue was discovered in gpmf-parser 1.1.2. 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Gpmf Parser
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

An issue was discovered in gpmf-parser 1.1.2. 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Gpmf Parser
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

An issue was discovered in gpmf-parser 1.1.2. 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Gpmf Parser
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

An issue was discovered in gpmf-parser 1.1.2. 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Gpmf Parser
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

An issue was discovered in MP4Box in GPAC 0.7.1. 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Debian Linux +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

An issue was discovered in MP4Box in GPAC 0.7.1. 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.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Debian Linux +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

A stack-based buffer over-read in the PdfEncryptMD5Base::ComputeEncryptionKey() function in PdfEncrypt.cpp in PoDoFo 0.9.6-rc1 could be leveraged by remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service via. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

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

Invalid memory read in the PoDoFo::PdfVariant::DelayedLoad() function in PdfVariant.h in PoDoFo 0.9.6-rc1 allows remote attackers to have denial-of-service impact via a crafted 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 Podofo
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

PlayEnhMetaFileRecord in enhmetafile.c in Wine 3.7 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact because the attacker controls the. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

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

PlayEnhMetaFileRecord in enhmetafile.c in Wine 3.7 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a large. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability could allow attackers to write data beyond allocated buffer boundaries leading to code execution or crashes.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

ntfs_attr_find in the ntfs.ko filesystem driver in the Linux kernel 4.15.0 allows attackers to trigger a stack-based out-of-bounds write and cause a denial of service (kernel oops or panic) or. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Linux Denial Of Service +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

ntfs_end_buffer_async_read in the ntfs.ko filesystem driver in the Linux kernel 4.15.0 allows attackers to trigger a stack-based out-of-bounds write and cause a denial of service (kernel oops or. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Linux Denial Of Service +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In libpbc.a in PBC through 2017-03-02, there is a Segmentation fault in _pbcB_register_fields in bootstrap.c. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

In libpbc.a in PBC through 2017-03-02, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in _pbcM_ip_new in map.c. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Pbc
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In libpbc.a in PBC through 2017-03-02, there is a Segmentation fault in _pbcP_message_default in proto.c. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

In libpbc.a in PBC through 2017-03-02, there is a buffer over-read in calc_hash in map.c. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Information Disclosure Buffer Overflow Pbc
NVD GitHub
EPSS 25% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC THREAT This Week

Heap-based buffer overflow in the cpSeparateBufToContigBuf function in tiffcp.c in LibTIFF 3.9.3, 3.9.4, 3.9.5, 3.9.6, 3.9.7, 4.0.0beta7, 4.0.0alpha4, 4.0.0alpha5, 4.0.0alpha6, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2,. 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 Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 69% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC THREAT Emergency

Delta Industrial Automation COMMGR from Delta Electronics versions 1.08 and prior with accompanying PLC Simulators (DVPSimulator EH2, EH3, ES2, SE, SS2 and AHSIM_5x0, AHSIM_5x1) utilize a. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

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

A vulnerability has been identified in SCALANCE M875 (All versions). Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Siemens CSRF Buffer Overflow +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in the httpd process in multiple models of Axis IP Cameras. 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 A1001 Firmware A8004 V Firmware +388
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

There was a Memory Corruption issue discovered in multiple models of Axis IP Cameras which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending a crafted command which will result. 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.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow A1001 Firmware +389
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

There was a Memory Corruption issue discovered in multiple models of Axis IP Cameras which causes a denial of service (crash). 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.

Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow A1001 Firmware +389
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Marlin Firmware Marlin version 1.1.x and earlier contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in cardreader.cpp (Depending on branch/version) that can result in Arbitrary code execution. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Marlin Firmware
NVD GitHub
EPSS 33% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

BusyBox project BusyBox wget version prior to commit 8e2174e9bd836e53c8b9c6e00d1bc6e2a718686e contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Busybox wget that can result in heap buffer overflow. 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 Busybox Debian Linux +1
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Buffer overflow in H2O version 2.2.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (DoS) via unspecified vectors. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service RCE Buffer Overflow +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

An issue was discovered in CCN-lite 2.0.1. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Ccn Lite
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

The sell function of a smart contract implementation for SEC, a tradable Ethereum ERC20 token, allows a potential trap that could be used to cause financial damage to the seller, because of overflow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Sec
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

The sell function of a smart contract implementation for Target Coin (TGT), a tradable Ethereum ERC20 token, allows a potential trap that could be used to cause financial damage to the seller,. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Target Coin
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

The sell function of a smart contract implementation for Substratum (SUB), a tradable Ethereum ERC20 token, allows a potential trap that could be used to cause financial damage to the seller, because. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Substratum
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

The sell function of a smart contract implementation for Internet Node Token (INT), a tradable Ethereum ERC20 token, allows a potential trap that could be used to cause financial damage to the. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Node Token
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

The sell function of a smart contract implementation for SwftCoin (SWFTC), a tradable Ethereum ERC20 token, allows a potential trap that could be used to cause financial damage to the seller, because. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Swftcoin
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

The buy function of a smart contract implementation for Gold Reward (GRX), an Ethereum ERC20 token, allows a potential trap that could be used to cause financial damage to the buyer because of. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Gold Reward
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 4.17.2. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Memory Corruption Linux Denial Of Service +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 10% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC THREAT Act Now

DIGISOL DG-BR4000NG devices have a Buffer Overflow via a long Authorization HTTP header. 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 Dg Br4000Ng Firmware
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 5% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

finish_stab in stabs.c in GNU Binutils 2.30 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact, as demonstrated by an out-of-bounds. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

The webService binary on Insteon HD IP Camera White 2864-222 devices has a Buffer Overflow via a crafted pid, pwd, or usr key in a GET request on port 34100. 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 2864 222 Firmware
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

The webService binary on Insteon HD IP Camera White 2864-222 devices has a stack-based Buffer Overflow leading to Control-Flow Hijacking via a crafted usr key, as demonstrated by a long remoteIp. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow 2864 222 Firmware
NVD GitHub
EPSS 16% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC THREAT This Month

Stack-based buffer overflow in TP-Link TL-WA850RE Wi-Fi Range Extender with hardware version 5 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (outage) via a long type parameter to. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Out-of-bounds Read in the send_ssi_file function in civetweb.c in CivetWeb through 1.10 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service or Information Disclosure via a crafted SSI file. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Information Disclosure Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 25% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH THREAT This Week

qmp_guest_file_read in qga/commands-posix.c and qga/commands-win32.c in qemu-ga (aka QEMU Guest Agent) in QEMU 2.12.50 has an integer overflow causing a g_malloc0() call to trigger a segmentation. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Qemu +2
NVD GitHub Exploit-DB
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability in the Cisco Fabric Services component of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on. 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 Cisco +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability in the Cisco Discovery Protocol component of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary code as root or cause. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service RCE Buffer Overflow +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability in the CLI parser of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to cause a buffer overflow on an affected device. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Cisco +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco FXOS and Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a buffer overflow on an affected system. 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 Cisco +2
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A vulnerability in the Cisco Fabric Services (CFS) component of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Cisco +5
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A vulnerability in the Cisco Fabric Services component of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service RCE Buffer Overflow +6
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A vulnerability in the Cisco Fabric Services component of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service RCE Buffer Overflow +6
NVD
EPSS 9% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A vulnerability in the Cisco Fabric Services component of Cisco FXOS Software and Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to read sensitive memory content, create a. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service RCE Buffer Overflow +6
NVD
EPSS 18% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A vulnerability in the NX-API feature of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to craft a packet to the management interface on an affected system, causing a buffer. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

A vulnerability in the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Snooping feature of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary code and gain full. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service RCE Buffer Overflow +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

There is a heap-based buffer overflow in ReadImage in input-tga.ci in sam2p 0.49.4 that leads to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption Denial Of Service Buffer Overflow +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

In ImageMagick 7.0.8-3 Q16, ReadDIBImage and WriteDIBImage in coders/dib.c allow attackers to cause an out of bounds write via a crafted 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.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Ubuntu Linux +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

In ImageMagick 7.0.8-3 Q16, ReadBMPImage and WriteBMPImage in coders/bmp.c allow attackers to cause an out of bounds write via a crafted 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.

Memory Corruption Buffer Overflow Ubuntu Linux +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 29% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC THREAT Act Now

Stack-based buffer overflow in ntpq and ntpdc of NTP version 4.2.8p11 allows an attacker to achieve code execution or escalate to higher privileges via a long string as the argument for an IPv4 or. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Memory Corruption RCE Buffer Overflow +1
NVD GitHub Exploit-DB
EPSS 7% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

A flaw was found affecting the Linux kernel before version 4.17. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. Public exploit code available.

Heap Overflow Linux Denial Of Service +8
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

FastStone Image Viewer 6.2 has a User Mode Read and Execute AV at 0x0057898e, triggered when the user opens a malformed JPEG 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 Image Viewer
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

FastStone Image Viewer 6.2 has a User Mode Write AV at 0x00578dd8, triggered when the user opens a malformed JPEG 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 Image Viewer
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

FastStone Image Viewer 6.2 has a User Mode Write AV at 0x00578cc4, triggered when the user opens a malformed JPEG 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 Image Viewer
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

FastStone Image Viewer 6.2 has a User Mode Write AV at 0x00402d7d, triggered when the user opens a malformed JPEG 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 Image Viewer
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

FastStone Image Viewer 6.2 has a User Mode Write AV at 0x00402d6a, triggered when the user opens a malformed JPEG 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 Image Viewer
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

FastStone Image Viewer 6.2 has a User Mode Write AV at 0x00578cb3, triggered when the user opens a malformed JPEG 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 Image Viewer
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

FastStone Image Viewer 6.2 has a User Mode Write AV at 0x005cb509, triggered when the user opens a malformed JPEG 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 Image Viewer
NVD GitHub
EPSS 11% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC PATCH THREAT This Week

The getImageData function in the ImageBufferCairo class in WebCore/platform/graphics/cairo/ImageBufferCairo.cpp in WebKit, as used in WebKitGTK+ prior to version 2.20.3 and WPE WebKit prior to. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Integer Overflow Buffer Overflow Apple +3
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

The liblnk_data_block_read function in liblnk_data_block.c in liblnk through 2018-04-19 allows remote attackers to cause an information disclosure (heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted lnk. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

The liblnk_location_information_read_data function in liblnk_location_information.c in liblnk through 2018-04-19 allows remote attackers to cause an information disclosure (heap-based buffer. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

The liblnk_data_string_get_utf8_string_size function in liblnk_data_string.c in liblnk through 2018-04-19 allows remote attackers to cause an information disclosure (heap-based buffer over-read) via. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

The libfsntfs_mft_entry_read_attributes function in libfsntfs_mft_entry.c in libfsntfs through 2018-04-20 allows remote attackers to cause an information disclosure (heap-based buffer over-read) via. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

The libfsntfs_mft_entry_read_header function in libfsntfs_mft_entry.c in libfsntfs through 2018-04-20 allows remote attackers to cause an information disclosure (heap-based buffer over-read) via a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

The libfsntfs_reparse_point_values_read_data function in libfsntfs_reparse_point_values.c in libfsntfs through 2018-04-20 allows remote attackers to cause an information disclosure (heap-based buffer. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

The libfsntfs_attribute_read_from_mft function in libfsntfs_attribute.c in libfsntfs through 2018-04-20 allows remote attackers to cause an information disclosure (heap-based buffer over-read) via a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

The mobi_decode_font_resource function in util.c in Libmobi 0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a. 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
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