Weakness (CWE)
CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
How to prevent it (2 mitigations)
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Implementation
Assume all input is malicious. Use an "accept known good" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.
When performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, "boat" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as "red" or "blue."
Do not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.
To reduce the likelihood of introducing an out-of-bounds read, ensure that you validate and ensure correct calculations for any length argument, buffer size calculation, or offset. Be especially careful of relying on a sentinel (i.e. special character such as NUL) in untrusted inputs.
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Architecture and Design
Use a language that provides appropriate memory abstractions.
Source: MITRE CWE-125
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High 8.4
Out-of-bounds read in Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt, Xenon, Argon, Lithium, Cobalt Share
An Out-of-Bounds Read vulnerability is present in Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt, Xenon, Argon, Lithium, and Cobalt Share versions 12.6.1204.216 and prior that could allow an attacker to disclose information or execute arbitrary code when a specially crafted VC6 file i…
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High 8.4
Out-of-bounds read in Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt, Xenon, Argon, Lithium, Cobalt Share
An Out-of-Bounds Read vulnerability is present in Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt, Xenon, Argon, Lithium, and Cobalt Share versions 12.6.1204.216 and prior that could allow an attacker to disclose information or execute arbitrary code when a specially crafted VC6 file i…
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High 7.8
Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Out-of-bounds read in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information locally.
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High 8.3
Out-of-bounds read for the Intel(R) Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi software before version 2.0.2 within Ri…
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High 8.7
pam_authnft: Heap buffer overflow in NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG reply walker
pam_authnft is a PAM session module binding nftables firewall rules to authenticated sessions via cgroupv2 inodes. Prior to 0.2.0-alpha, a heap buffer over-read in peer_lookup_tcp (src/peer_lookup.c:134, prior to the fix) allowed a crafted NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG r…
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High 7.3CVE-2026-43655 Public exploit
An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5, mac…
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High 7.5
An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5, mac…
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High 7.3CVE-2026-5172 Public exploit
CVE-2026-5172
A buffer overflow in dnsmasq’s extract_addresses() function allows an attacker to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read and crash by exploiting a malformed DNS response, enabling extract_name() to advance the pointer past the record’s end.
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High 7.5
XML::LibXML versions through 2.0210 for Perl read out-of-bounds heap memory when parsing XML node names containing truncated UTF-8 byte sequences
XML::LibXML versions through 2.0210 for Perl read out-of-bounds heap memory when parsing XML node names containing truncated UTF-8 byte sequences. A node name ending in the middle of a multi byte UTF-8 sequence causes the parser to read past the end of the in…
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High 8.2
netfilter: x_tables: guard option walkers against 1-byte tail reads
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: x_tables: guard option walkers against 1-byte tail reads When the last byte of options is a non-single-byte option kind, walkers that advance with i += op[i + 1] ? : 1 can read op[…
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High 7.6
smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits parse_dacl() treats an ACE SID matching sid_unix_NFS_mode as an NFS mode SID and reads sid.sub_auth[2] to recover the mode bi…
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High 8.1
Memory safety bugs fixed in Thunderbird ESR 140.10.2 and Thunderbird 150.0.2
Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird ESR 140.10.1 and Thunderbird 150.0.1. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability wa…
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High 8.8
OpenEXR: Out-of-bounds read in `IDManifest::init()` during prefix expansion
OpenEXR provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, an image storage format for the motion picture industry. From versions 3.0.0 to before 3.2.9, 3.3.0 to before 3.3.11, and 3.4.0 to before 3.4.11, IDManifest::init() recons…
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High 7.1
Incus out-of-bounds panic in snapshot metadata handling allows denial of service
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. In versions before 7.0.0, missing validation logic in the storage volume import logic allows an authenticated user with access to the storage volume feature to cause the Incus daemon to crash. The backu…
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High 8.8
Out of bounds read in AdFilter in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary c…
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High 8.1
Out of bounds read in Codecs in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially se…
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High 8.8
Out of bounds memory access in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrar…
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High 8.8CVE-2026-7899 Public exploit
Out of bounds read and write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitra…
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High 7.1
drm/xe: Add bounds check on pat_index to prevent OOB kernel read in madvise
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Add bounds check on pat_index to prevent OOB kernel read in madvise When user provides a bogus pat_index value through the madvise IOCTL, the xe_pat_index_get_coh_mode() function perf…
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High 8.2
netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice() In decode_choice(), the boundary check before get_len() uses the variable `len`, which is still 0 from its initialization at the …
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High 7.5
wifi: rtw89: pci: validate sequence number of TX release report
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: rtw89: pci: validate sequence number of TX release report Hardware rarely reports abnormal sequence number in TX release report, which will access out-of-bounds of wd_ring->pages array,…
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High 8.2
netfilter: xt_tcpmss: check remaining length before reading optlen
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: xt_tcpmss: check remaining length before reading optlen Quoting reporter: In net/netfilter/xt_tcpmss.c (lines 53-68), the TCP option parser reads op[i+1] directly without validatin…
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High 8.8
fs/smb/client: fix out-of-bounds read in cifs_sanitize_prepath
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/smb/client: fix out-of-bounds read in cifs_sanitize_prepath When cifs_sanitize_prepath is called with an empty string or a string containing only delimiters (e.g., "/"), the current logic …
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High 8.2
libModSecurity3 denial of service via segfault when using t:hexDecode on single-character query strings
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Libmodsecurity is one component of the ModSecurity v3 project. A segmentation fault occurs when a rule using the t:hexDecode transformation inspects…
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High 8.7
In Eclipse Open9J versions 0.21 to 0.58, a pre-authentication remote attacker can crash JITServer by sending a 32-byte …
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High 7.5
GoBGP has an out-of-bounds read in the ParseIP6Extended function
An out-of-bounds read in the ParseIP6Extended function (/bgp/bgp.go) of gobgp v4.3.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted BGP UPDATE message.
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High 7.3
MikroTik RouterOS SCEP Endpoint scep.p ASN1_STRING_data out-of-bounds
A vulnerability was identified in MikroTik RouterOS 6.49.8. This vulnerability affects the function ASN1_STRING_data in the library nova/lib/www/scep.p of the component SCEP Endpoint. The manipulation of the argument transactionID/messageType leads to out-of-…
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High 8.1
HID: wacom: fix out-of-bounds read in wacom_intuos_bt_irq
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: wacom: fix out-of-bounds read in wacom_intuos_bt_irq The wacom_intuos_bt_irq() function processes Bluetooth HID reports without sufficient bounds checking. A maliciously crafted short re…
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High 7.3
netfilter: ctnetlink: ignore explicit helper on new expectations
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ctnetlink: ignore explicit helper on new expectations Use the existing master conntrack helper, anything else is not really supported and it just makes validation more complicated,…
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High 8.1
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix potential out-of-bounds read in iwl_mvm_nd_match_info_handler()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix potential out-of-bounds read in iwl_mvm_nd_match_info_handler() The memcpy function assumes the dynamic array notif->matches is at least as large as the number of byte…
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High 8.1
Bluetooth: hci_event: move wake reason storage into validated event handlers
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_event: move wake reason storage into validated event handlers hci_store_wake_reason() is called from hci_event_packet() immediately after stripping the HCI event header but bef…
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High 7.8
vt: discard stale unicode buffer on alt screen exit after resize
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vt: discard stale unicode buffer on alt screen exit after resize When enter_alt_screen() saves vc_uni_lines into vc_saved_uni_lines and sets vc_uni_lines to NULL, a subsequent console resize …
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High 8.8
smb: client: validate the whole DACL before rewriting it in cifsacl
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: validate the whole DACL before rewriting it in cifsacl build_sec_desc() and id_mode_to_cifs_acl() derive a DACL pointer from a server-supplied dacloffset and then use the incomin…
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High 8.1
smb: client: fix OOB read in smb2_ioctl_query_info QUERY_INFO path
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix OOB read in smb2_ioctl_query_info QUERY_INFO path smb2_ioctl_query_info() has two response-copy branches: PASSTHRU_FSCTL and the default QUERY_INFO path. The QUERY_INFO branc…
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High 7.1
crypto: ccp: Don't attempt to copy CSR to userspace if PSP command failed
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: ccp: Don't attempt to copy CSR to userspace if PSP command failed When retrieving the PEK CSR, don't attempt to copy the blob to userspace if the firmware command failed. If the failu…
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High 7.1
crypto: ccp: Don't attempt to copy ID to userspace if PSP command failed
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: ccp: Don't attempt to copy ID to userspace if PSP command failed When retrieving the ID for the CPU, don't attempt to copy the ID blob to userspace if the firmware command failed. If …
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High 7.1
crypto: ccp: Don't attempt to copy PDH cert to userspace if PSP command failed
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: ccp: Don't attempt to copy PDH cert to userspace if PSP command failed When retrieving the PDH cert, don't attempt to copy the blobs to userspace if the firmware command failed. If th…
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High 7.1
openxc/isotp-c thru commit 5a5d19245f65189202719321facd49ce6f5d46ac (2021-08-09) contains an out-of-bounds read in the …
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High 8.5
Arbitrary read/write vulnerability in Windows clients prior to 14.50
CVE-2026-33451 is an arbitrary read/write vulnerability in the Secure Access Windows client prior to 14.50. Attackers with local control of the Windows client can send malformed data to an API and elevate their level of privilege to system.
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High 7.4
Out-of-bounds read in ulp
Out-of-bounds read vulnerability in ASR Kestrel (nr_fw modules) allows Overflow Buffers. This vulnerability is associated with program files Code/Nr/nr_fw/RA/src/NrPwrCtrl.C. This issue affects Kestrel: before 2026/02/10.