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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 (36779)

EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

There is an illegal address access in Sass::Eval::operator() in eval.cpp of LibSass 3.4.5, leading to a remote denial of service attack. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

There is an illegal address access in the function output_hex() in data/data-out.c of the libpspp library in GNU PSPP before 1.0.1 that will lead to remote denial of service. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in libexiv2 in Exiv2 0.26 that is triggered in the Exiv2::Image::io function in image.cpp. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

There is an illegal address access in Exiv2::FileIo::path[abi:cxx11]() in basicio.cpp of libexiv2 in Exiv2 0.26 that will lead to remote denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

There is a heap-based buffer overflow in basicio.cpp of Exiv2 0.26. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Exiv2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, in a video driver, memory corruption can potentially occur due to lack of bounds checking in a memcpy(). 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 Qualcomm Google +2
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EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, in a driver function, a value from userspace is not properly validated potentially leading to an out of bounds heap. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability could allow attackers to write data beyond allocated buffer boundaries leading to code execution or crashes.

Linux Buffer Overflow Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, the camera application can possibly request frame/command buffer processing with invalid values leading to the driver. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Linux Buffer Overflow Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a race condition exists in an IOCTL handler potentially leading to an integer overflow and then an out-of-bounds write. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Linux Buffer Overflow Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, due to a type downcast, a value may improperly pass validation and cause an out of bounds write later. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Qualcomm Google Linux +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, array out of bounds access can occur if userspace sends more than 16 multicast addresses. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), 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.

Linux Buffer Overflow Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, an integer overflow vulnerability exists in boot. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Linux Buffer Overflow Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, an integer overflow to buffer overflow vulnerability exists when loading an image file. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a driver can potentially leak kernel memory. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, there is no size check for the images being flashed onto the NAND memory in their respective partitions, so there is a. 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 Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, an integer overflow vulnerability exists in the hypervisor. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Linux Buffer Overflow Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, sSL handshake failure with ClientHello rejection results in memory leak. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer over-read vulnerability exists in a TrustZone syscall. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer over-read vulnerability exists in a TrustZone syscall. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists in an Inter-RAT procedure. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists in a procedure involving a remote UIM client. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, an integer overflow to buffer overflow vulnerability exists when loading an ELF file. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the processing of certain responses from the USIM. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a vulnerability exists where an array out of bounds access can occur during a CA call. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Linux Buffer Overflow Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a vulnerability exists in GERAN where a buffer can be overflown while taking power measurements. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists when processing a QMI message. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists when performing WCDMA radio tuning. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer over-read may occur in the processing of a downlink 3G NAS message. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, an incorrect length is used to clear a memory buffer resulting in adjacent memory getting corrupted. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a memory buffer fails to be freed after it is no longer needed potentially resulting in memory exhaustion. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a string can fail to be null-terminated in SIP leading to a buffer overflow. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, validation of buffer lengths is missing in malware protection. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer over-read vulnerability exists in digital television/digital radio DRM. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer over-read vulnerability exists in RFA-1x. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists in 1x call processing. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a pointer is not validated prior to being dereferenced potentially resulting in Guest-OS memory corruption. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Linux Buffer Overflow +4
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

The OAuth implementation in librest before 0.7.93 incorrectly truncates the pointer returned by the rest_proxy_call_get_url function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Librest
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists in HSDPA. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, an overflow check in the USB interface was insufficient during boot. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a Sample App failed to check a length potentially leading to unauthorized access to secure memory. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Linux Buffer Overflow Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a variable is uninitialized in a TrustZone system call potentially leading to the compromise of secure memory. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists in a QTEE service. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists in PlayReady DRM. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists in 1x call processing. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, validation of buffer lengths was missing in Keymaster. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, validation of a buffer length was missing in a PlayReady DRM routine. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the UIMDIAG interface. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Heap-based buffer overflow in the SMB implementation in NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP before 8.3.2P8 and 9.0 before P2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service or execute. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow RCE Denial Of Service +1
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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Stack-based buffer overflow in the inet_pton function in network/inet_pton.c in musl libc 0.9.15 through 1.0.4, and 1.1.0 through 1.1.7 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

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

Buffer overflow in the ares_parse_a_reply function in the embedded ares library in ReSIProcate before 1.12.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds-read) via a crafted. 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 Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

libunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has a buffer overflow in the Unpack::LongLZ function. 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 Unrar
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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libunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has an out-of-bounds read in the Unpack::Unpack20 function. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Unrar
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EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
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libunrar.a in UnRAR before 5.5.7 has an out-of-bounds read in the EncodeFileName::Decode call within the Archive::ReadHeader15 function. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Information Disclosure Unrar
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

The ReadSUNImage function in coders/sun.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a colormap heap-based buffer over-read. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), 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 Graphicsmagick +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

The ReadMNGImage function in coders/png.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 mishandles large MNG images, leading to an invalid memory read in the SetImageColorCallBack function in magick/image.c. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), 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 Graphicsmagick +1
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EPSS 13% CVSS 9.8
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The finish_nested_data function in ext/standard/var_unserializer.re in PHP before 5.6.31, 7.0.x before 7.0.21, and 7.1.x before 7.1.7 is prone to a buffer over-read while unserializing untrusted. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Epss exploitation probability 13.0% and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow PHP Information Disclosure
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EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
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Augeas versions up to and including 1.8.0 are vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow due to improper handling of escaped strings. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Heap Overflow +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

The JB2BitmapCoder::code_row_by_refinement function in jb2/bmpcoder.cpp in minidjvu 0.8 can cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and application crash) via a crafted djvu file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

The mdjvu_bitmap_get_bounding_box function in base/4bitmap.c in minidjvu 0.8 can cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and application crash) via a crafted djvu file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

The mdjvu_bitmap_pack_row function in base/4bitmap.c in minidjvu 0.8 can cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and application crash) via a crafted djvu file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

The row_is_empty function in base/4bitmap.c:272 in minidjvu 0.8 can cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and application crash) via a crafted djvu file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

The row_is_empty function in base/4bitmap.c:274 in minidjvu 0.8 can cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and application crash) via a crafted djvu file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

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

The _WM_SetupMidiEvent function in internal_midi.c:2122 in WildMIDI 0.4.2 can cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and application crash) via a crafted mid file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD GitHub Exploit-DB
EPSS 9% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

The _WM_SetupMidiEvent function in internal_midi.c:2315 in WildMIDI 0.4.2 can cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and application crash) via a crafted mid 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.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 14% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC THREAT Act Now

The _WM_ParseNewMidi function in f_midi.c in WildMIDI 0.4.2 can cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and application crash) via a crafted mid file. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and EPSS exploitation probability 14.2%.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 13% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC THREAT Act Now

The _WM_SetupMidiEvent function in internal_midi.c:2318 in WildMIDI 0.4.2 can cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and application crash) via a crafted mid file. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and EPSS exploitation probability 13.3%.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A buffer overflow may occur in the processing of a downlink NAS message in Qualcomm Telephony as used in Apple iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4th generation and later, iPod touch 6th generation. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Apple +1
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EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A buffer overflow can occur in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android when processing a firmware image file. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow Qualcomm Google +2
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EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

In the touch controller function in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, a variable may be controlled by the user and can lead to a buffer overflow. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), 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 Qualcomm Google +2
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EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

In an audio driver function in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, some parameters are from userspace, and if they are set to a large value, integer. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Buffer Overflow Google Qualcomm +3
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EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

In an audio driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, if a function is called with a very large length, an integer overflow could occur followed by a. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required.

Buffer Overflow Google Qualcomm +3
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EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

In a sound driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, if a function is called with a very large length, an integer overflow could occur followed by a. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required.

Buffer Overflow Google Qualcomm +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In an ioctl handler in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, if a user supplies a value too large, then an out-of-bounds read occurs. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.7), this vulnerability is no authentication required. This Exposure of Sensitive Information vulnerability could allow attackers to access sensitive data that should not be disclosed.

Buffer Overflow Google Qualcomm +3
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

In modules/imgcodecs/src/grfmt_pxm.cpp, the length of buffer AutoBuffer _src is small than expected, which will cause copy buffer overflow later. 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 Memory Corruption Denial Of Service +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 5% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

A Heap-Based Buffer Overflow was discovered in Fuji Electric Monitouch V-SFT versions prior to Version 5.4.43.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Monitouch V Sft
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

A Stack-Based Buffer Overflow issue was discovered in Fuji Electric Monitouch V-SFT versions prior to Version 5.4.43.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow RCE Monitouch V Sft
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

The prefix variable in the get_or_define_ns function in Lasso before commit 6d854cef4211cdcdbc7446c978f23ab859847cdd allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Fedora +1
NVD
EPSS 9% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the picture. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow RCE Microsoft +5
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the image. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +4
NVD
EPSS 10% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the image. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Epss exploitation probability 10.1%.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +4
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the Enhanced. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +4
NVD
EPSS 11% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH Act Now

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in Acrobat/Reader. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Epss exploitation probability 11.4%.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +4
NVD
EPSS 24% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH Act Now

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable heap overflow vulnerability in the plugin that. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Epss exploitation probability 24.2%.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +4
NVD
EPSS 7% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +4
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier versions 4.5.4 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +4
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +1
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow RCE Adobe +1
NVD
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