Weakness (CWE)
CWE-122: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
The product writes past the end of a buffer that was allocated on the heap.
How to prevent it (7 mitigations)
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Pre-design: Use a language or compiler that performs automatic bounds checking.
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Architecture and Design
Use an abstraction library to abstract away risky APIs. Not a complete solution.
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Operation, Build and Compilation
Use automatic buffer overflow detection mechanisms that are offered by certain compilers or compiler extensions. Examples include: the Microsoft Visual Studio /GS flag, Fedora/Red Hat FORTIFY_SOURCE GCC flag, StackGuard, and ProPolice, which provide various mechanisms including canary-based detection and range/index checking.
D3-SFCV (Stack Frame Canary Validation) from D3FEND [REF-1334] discusses canary-based detection in detail.
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Operation, Build and Compilation
Run or compile the software using features or extensions that randomly arrange the positions of a program's executable and libraries in memory. Because this makes the addresses unpredictable, it can prevent an attacker from reliably jumping to exploitable code.
Examples include Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) [REF-58] [REF-60] and Position-Independent Executables (PIE) [REF-64]. Imported modules may be similarly realigned if their default memory addresses conflict with other modules, in a process known as "rebasing" (for Windows) and "prelinking" (for Linux) [REF-1332] using randomly generated addresses. ASLR for libraries cannot be used in conjunction with prelink since it would require relocating the libraries at run-time, defeating the whole purpose of prelinking.
For more information on these techniques see D3-SAOR (Segment Address Offset Randomization) from D3FEND [REF-1335].
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Implementation
Implement and perform bounds checking on input.
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Implementation
Do not use dangerous functions such as gets. Look for their safe equivalent, which checks for the boundary.
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Operation
Use OS-level preventative functionality. This is not a complete solution, but it provides some defense in depth.
Source: MITRE CWE-122
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Medium 4.8
Heap Buffer Overflow in vifm
vifm is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow during the history merge process when saving the state file (vifminfo.json). This flaw occurs because the application lacks a runtime check on the length of history entries in release builds, potentially allowing a…
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Medium 5.5
Heap overflow in FUSE_LISTXATTR
When a fusefs file system implements extended attributes, the kernel may send a FUSE_LISTXATTR message to the userspace daemon to retrieve the list of extended attributes for a given file. The FUSE protocol requires the daemon to return a packed list of NUL-t…
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Medium 6.5
Libsolv: heap buffer overflow in libsolv repo_add_solv via negative maxsize from crafted .solv file
A flaw was found in libsolv. This heap buffer overflow vulnerability occurs when a victim processes a specially crafted `.solv` file containing negative size values in the `repo_add_solv` function. This leads to an undersized memory allocation and a subsequen…
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Medium 5.1
rust-openssl: Heap buffer overflow when encrypting with AES key-wrap-with-padding
rust-openssl provides OpenSSL bindings for the Rust programming language. From 0.10.0 to before 0.10.79, CipherCtxRef::cipher_update, CipherCtxRef::cipher_update_vec, and symm::Crypter::update incorrectly sized output buffers when used with AES key-wrap-with-…
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Medium 4.3
Heap buffer overflow in SwiftShader in Google Chrome on Mac and iOS prior to 148.0.7778.168 allowed a remote attacker t…
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Medium 4.3
Heap buffer overflow in GPU in Google Chrome on Android prior to 148.0.7778.168 allowed a remote attacker to perform an…
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Medium 6.6CVE-2026-0264 Public exploit
PAN-OS: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in DNS Proxy and DNS Server Allows Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
A buffer overflow vulnerability in the DNS proxy and DNS Server features of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® Software allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition (all PAN-OS platforms except Cloud NGFW and Pri…
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Medium 6.2
Windows Volume Manager Extension Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Heap-based buffer overflow in Volume Manager Extension Driver allows an authorized attacker to execute code with a physical attack.
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Medium 5.9
Squirrel sqobject.cpp Load heap-based overflow
A vulnerability was determined in Squirrel up to 3.2. This affects the function SQFunctionProto::Load of the file squirrel/sqobject.cpp. This manipulation causes heap-based buffer overflow. The attack is restricted to local execution. The exploit has been pub…
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Medium 5.3
OSGeo gdal Grid File GDapi.c GDSDfldsrch heap-based overflow
A vulnerability has been found in OSGeo gdal up to 3.13.0dev-4. Affected by this issue is the function GDSDfldsrch of the file frmts/hdf4/hdf-eos/GDapi.c of the component Grid File Handler. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. An attack has t…
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Medium 5.3
OSGeo gdal SWapi.c SWSDfldsrch heap-based overflow
A flaw has been found in OSGeo gdal up to 3.13.0dev-4. Affected by this vulnerability is the function SWSDfldsrch of the file frmts/hdf4/hdf-eos/SWapi.c. Executing a manipulation can lead to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack requires local access. The ex…
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Medium 5.1
Pillow: Heap buffer overflow with nested list coordinates
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From version 11.2.1 to before version 12.2.0, passing nested lists as coordinates to APIs that accept coordinates such as ImagePath.Path, ImageDraw.ImageDraw.polygon and ImageDraw.ImageDraw.line could cause a heap buffer ov…
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Medium 6.6
Vim: Heap Buffer Overflow in spell file loading
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to version 9.2.0450, a heap buffer overflow exists in read_compound() in src/spellfile.c when loading a crafted spell file (.spl) with UTF-8 encoding active. An attacker-controlled length field in the spe…
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Medium 6.9
Integer underflow in crypto_sign_open() leads to buffer overflow
CROSS implementation contains reference and optimized implementations of the CROSS post-quantum signature algorithm. Prior to commit fc6b7e7, there is a buffer overflow in crypto_sign_open() caused by an underflow of the integer mlen. This issue has been patc…
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Medium 5.3
OSGeo gdal GDapi.c GDnentries heap-based overflow
A security flaw has been discovered in OSGeo gdal up to 3.13.0dev-4. Impacted is the function GDnentries of the file frmts/hdf4/hdf-eos/GDapi.c. Performing a manipulation of the argument DataFieldName results in heap-based buffer overflow. The attack must be …
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Medium 5.3
OSGeo gdal SWapi.c SWnentries heap-based overflow
A vulnerability was identified in OSGeo gdal up to 3.13.0dev-4. This issue affects the function SWnentries of the file frmts/hdf4/hdf-eos/SWapi.c. Such manipulation of the argument DimensionName leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack must be carried …
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Medium 5.5
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in GPAC before commit v391dc7f4d234988ea0bc3cc294eb725eddf8f702 allows an attacker to cau…
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Medium 5.5
A heap-based out-of-bounds read vulnerability in RWObj_Reader::read in the OBJ file parser in Open CASCADE Technology (…
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Medium 5.5
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Wireshark
DCP-ETSI protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
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Medium 5.5
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Wireshark
DCP-ETSI protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
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Medium 5.5
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Wireshark
iLBC audio codec crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
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Medium 5.5
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Wireshark
Crash in sharkd 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
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Medium 6.5
Off-by-one access when processing crafted UDP responses
A rogue backend can send a crafted UDP response with a query ID off by one related to the maximum configured value, triggering an out-of-bounds write leading to a denial of service.
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Medium 5.3
SD-330AC and AMC Manager provided by silex technology, Inc. contain a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in packe…
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Medium 6.3
xrdp: Heap buffer overflow in xrdp_sec_process_logon_info() via incorrect g_strncat length calculation
xrdp is an open source RDP server. Versions through 0.10.5 contain a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in its logon processing. In environments where domain_user_separator is configured in xrdp.ini, an unauthenticated remote attacker can send a crafted…
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Medium 5.3
libvips nip2 vips7compat.c im_minpos_vec heap-based overflow
A security vulnerability has been detected in libvips up to 8.18.2. The affected element is the function im_minpos_vec of the file libvips/deprecated/vips7compat.c of the component nip2 Handler. Such manipulation of the argument n leads to heap-based buffer o…
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Medium 4.3
Heap buffer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 147.0.7727.101 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially s…
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Medium 5.5
Adobe Framemaker | Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122)
Adobe Framemaker versions 2022.8 and earlier are affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could lead to memory exposure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to disclose sensitive information stored in memory. Exploitation of this …
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Medium 6.8CVE-2026-32223 Public exploit
Windows USB Printing Stack (usbprint.sys) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows USB Print Driver allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges with a physical attack.
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Medium 5.5
InDesign Desktop | Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122)
InDesign Desktop versions 20.5.2, 21.2 and earlier are affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could lead to application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash the application or disrupt its functionality.…
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Medium 5.5
InDesign Desktop | Heap-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-122)
InDesign Desktop versions 20.5.2, 21.2 and earlier are affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could lead to memory exposure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to disclose sensitive information stored in memory. Exploitation of…
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Medium 5.5
ImageMagick: Heap out-of-bounds write in JP2 encoder
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Versions below both 7.1.2-19 and 6.9.13-44, contain a heap out-of-bounds write in the JP2 encoder with when a user specifies an invalid sampling index. This issue h…
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Medium 5.5
ImageMagick: Heap buffer overflow when encoding JXL image with a 16-bit float
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below 7.1.2-19, the JXL encoder has an heap write overflow when a user specifies that the image should be encoded as 16 bit floats. This issue has been …
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Medium 6.2
ImageMagick: Heap buffer overflow (WRITE) in the YAML and JSON encoders
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below 7.1.2-19, a crafted image could result in an out of bounds heap write when writing a yaml or json output, resulting in a crash. This issue has bee…
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Medium 5.3
ImageMagick: Heap BufferOverflow write of single zero byte when parsing XML
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below 7.1.2-189 and 6.9.13-44, when `Magick` parses an XML file it is possible that a single zero byte is written out of the bounds. This issue has been…
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Medium 5.5
HDF5 H5T__ref_mem_setnull Heap Buffer Overflow
HDF5 is software for managing data. In 1.14.1-2 and earlier, an attacker who can control an h5 file parsed by HDF5 can trigger a write-based heap buffer overflow condition in the H5T__ref_mem_setnull method. This can lead to a denial-of-service condition, and…
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Medium 6.3
Heap buffer overflow in CertFromX509() via AuthorityKeyIdentifier
Heap buffer overflow in CertFromX509 via AuthorityKeyIdentifier size confusion. A heap buffer overflow occurs when converting an X.509 certificate internally due to incorrect size handling of the AuthorityKeyIdentifier extension.
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Medium 4.3
Heap buffer overflow in WebML in Google Chrome prior to 147.0.7727.55 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially s…
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Medium 4.3
Heap buffer overflow in WebML in Google Chrome prior to 147.0.7727.55 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially s…
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Medium 4.3
Heap buffer overflow in WebAudio in Google Chrome prior to 147.0.7727.55 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentiall…