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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Medium 5.7
Out of bounds read in Chromecast in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a local attacker to obtain potentially…
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Medium 5.3
Out of bounds read in ANGLE in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker who had compromise…
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Medium 6.5
Out of bounds read in Codecs in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially se…
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Medium 5.3
Out of bounds read in Chromecast in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised …
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Medium 6.5
Out of bounds read in Layout in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially se…
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Medium 6.5
Out of bounds read in FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially se…
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Medium 6.5
Out of bounds read in Skia in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 150.0.7871.47 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised…
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Medium 6.5
Out-of-bounds read in Bluetooth Controller ISOAL framed RX reassembly leaks adjacent memory into host HCI ISO packets
The Zephyr Bluetooth controller ISO Adaptation Layer (subsys/bluetooth/controller/ll_sw/isoal.c) fails to validate the length field of a framed ISO PDU start segment. Per the Bluetooth specification a start segment (sc=0) always carries a 3-byte time_offset, …
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Medium 4.8
Out-of-bounds read in Zephyr DNS resolver TXT/SRV record parsing (unvalidated `rdlength`)
Zephyr's DNS resolver (subsys/net/lib/dns) parses resource records from DNS responses in dns_unpack_answer(), which validated only the fixed RR header (type, class, TTL, rdlength) and accepted any attacker-declared rdlength, including one extending past the e…
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Medium 6.9CVE-2026-10817 Public exploit
Insufficient input validation leading to memory overread
Insufficient input validation leading to memory overread in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway if the TCP TimeStamp is enabled in TCP Profile and is associated with the virtual server (of type LB, CS, VPN) or the service configured on NetScaler
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Medium 6.5
Glib: out-of-bounds read in glib/gdatetime.c:g_date_time_get_ymd via invalid gdatetime
A flaw was found in GLib. An out-of-bounds read of only 2 bytes can occur in the g_date_time_get_ymd function in the glib/gdatetime.c file when an invalid GDateTime object produced by the g_date_time_add_full function is processed. This flaw can corrupt the d…
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Medium 6.5
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.5.2, iOS 26.5.2 and iPadOS 26.5…
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Medium 6.5
An out-of-bounds access issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.5.2, iOS 18…
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Medium 6.5
An out-of-bounds access issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.5.2, iOS 18…
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Medium 6.5
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.5.2 and iPadOS 26.5.2, macOS Sequo…
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Medium 6.9
Eclipse tinydtls before commit b3efd41ad111a4920f599f51ffa4f5e9f1e72221 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in…
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Medium 4.3
Investintech SlimPDFReader PDF File SlimPDFReader.exe TeighaDo+0x25cde0 out-of-bounds
A security flaw has been discovered in Investintech SlimPDFReader up to 2.0.14. Affected by this issue is the function SlimPDFReader!Investintech::PCV::TeighaDo+0x25cde0 of the file SlimPDFReader.exe of the component PDF File Handler. Performing a manipulatio…
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Medium 5.0CVE-2026-48770 Public exploit
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Medium 6.3
Out-of-bounds heap read in SM2/SM3 certificate Subject Key Identifier computation
Out-of-bounds heap read during SM2/SM3 certificate signature verification. When parsing a certificate with an SM3wSM2 signature, the Subject Key Identifier computation reads the trailing 65 bytes of the public key without checking that the key is at least tha…
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Medium 4.4
RTKLIB 2.4.3 - Out-of-bounds Read via Negative Array Index in getcodepri
RTKLIB through 2.4.3 contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in getcodepri function when processing unrecognized RINEX observation codes, allowing attackers to trigger denial of service. Crafted RINEX files with unknown observation types cause negative a…
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Medium 6.3
Heap buffer overread in wc_PKCS7_DecodeEnvelopedData parsing crafted PKCS7 EnvelopedData
Heap buffer overread in wc_PKCS7_DecodeEnvelopedData when parsing crafted PKCS7 EnvelopedData. This could theoretically be triggered by attacker-supplied data delivered via S/MIME or CMS.
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Medium 5.3
Vim: Out-of-bounds Read in Text Property Count
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0670, get_text_props() in src/textprop.c reads a uint16 property count stored inline after a line's text and returns it as the number of 32-byte textprop_T entries that follow. The only check is a …
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Medium 5.5
Vim: Out-of-bounds Read with libsodium-encrypted Files
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. Prior to 9.2.0671, when Vim opens a file encrypted with the VimCrypt~04! or VimCrypt~05! method (xchacha20poly1305, requires the +sodium feature) whose body is shorter than a single libsodium secretstream heade…
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Medium 6.8
Vim: Out-of-bounds Read with Text Properties
Vim is an open source, command line text editor. From 9.2.0320 until 9.2.0679, a crafted undo or swap file can store a virtual-text property whose offset and length point outside the line's property data. When Vim restores or displays such a line it converts …
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Medium 6.3
Nokogiri: Possible Out-of-Bounds Read in `Nokogiri::XML::NodeSet#[]`
Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for the Ruby programming language. Prior to 1.19.4, Nokogiri::XML::NodeSet#[] (and its alias #slice) checked the requested index against the node set's bounds using a 32-bit-truncated copy of the index. A large …
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Medium 6.5CVE-2026-9539 Public exploit
libslirp TCP URG OOB Read Information Leak
An out-of-bounds heap read and integer underflow in the TCP urgent data handling (sosendoob) in freedesktop.org libslirp version before v4.9.2 on hypervisor host environments (e.g., QEMU) allows a privileged guest VM attacker (root or CAP_NET_RAW) to leak gig…
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Medium 4.4
Gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: gstreamer1-plugins-bad: 1-byte heap out-of-bounds read in h.264 nal extension slice parser
A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-bad package. When processing a specially crafted H.264 video file containing malformed MVC or SVC extension slice NAL units, a 1-byte heap out-of-bounds read can occur during parsing. This happens when the parser at…
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Medium 4.3
Gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free: gstreamer1-plugins-bad: global buffer overflow (oob read) in h.266/vvc vui parameter parser
A flaw was found in the GStreamer gst-plugins-bad package. When processing a malformed H.266/VVC video stream with a crafted aspect ratio indicator value, the H.266 parser performs an out-of-bounds read of up to 8 bytes from adjacent memory. This flaw allows …
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Medium 5.5
Acrobat Reader | Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)
Acrobat Reader versions 2020.009.20074, 2020.001.30002, 2017.011.30171, 2015.006.30523 and earlier are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to disclose…
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Medium 5.5
Acrobat Reader | Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)
Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2020.009.20074 and earlier, 2020.001.30002, 2017.011.30171 and earlier, and 2015.006.30523 and earlier are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could l…
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Medium 5.3
Dnsmasq: dnsmasq: out-of-bounds read in find_soa() due to missing extrabytes validation
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Medium 4.9
Out-of-bounds read in Zephyr ext2 directory entry traversal from a crafted filesystem image
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Medium 6.5
libheif: Wrapped icef compressed-unit range check causes out-of-bounds read in uncompressed HEIF decoder
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Medium 6.5
libssh2 - Heap Buffer Over-read via sftp_symlink() in sftp.c
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Medium 5.3
OpenBSD mpls_do_error Kernel Stack Memory Disclosure via MPLS Input
OpenBSD before commit 6a23123 (2026-06-18) contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the mpls_do_error function within sys/netmpls/mpls_input.c that allows remote attackers to disclose kernel stack memory by sending crafted MPLS frames with 16 labels an…
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Medium 5.1
Out‑of‑Bounds Read in 8cc
8cc is vulnerable to an Out‑of‑Bounds Read due to improper handling of #line directives and GNU linemarkers. The compiler accepts attacker-controlled filename and line number metadata and later uses it without validation when accessing source line arrays. By …
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Medium 6.5
Arbitrary File Write in postman_download module
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Medium 4.8
NGINX ngx_http_charset_module vulnerability
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Medium 6.5
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Medium 5.5
Out of bounds read in Chromoting in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 149.0.7827.155 allowed a local attacker to obtain…