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 5.9
Array full size, element count, and element size are not checked to make sure they match in H5Odtype.c
HDF5 is a high-performance library and a file format specification that implements the HDF5 data model. If a file is corrupted such that an array datatype's size, the number of elements, and the element size are not in agreement it can trigger an out of bound…
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Medium 4.3
Claircore: claircore: denial of service via out-of-bounds slice in claircore's apk installed-database parser
A flaw was found in claircore's apk package scanner. Malformed package-database data in a container layer can cause an out-of-bounds access that panics the scanner. If that panic is not recovered, the Clair indexer process can crash, leading to a denial of se…
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High 7.8
ALSA: asihpi: Fix potential OOB array access at reading cache
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: asihpi: Fix potential OOB array access at reading cache find_control() to retrieve a cached info accesses the array with the given index blindly, which may lead to an OOB array access. …
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High 7.3
Bluetooth: MGMT: validate Add Extended Advertising Data length
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: MGMT: validate Add Extended Advertising Data length MGMT_OP_ADD_EXT_ADV_DATA is registered as a variable-length command, with MGMT_ADD_EXT_ADV_DATA_SIZE as the fixed header size. T…
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High 7.8
drm/amd/display: Validate GPIO pin LUT table size before iterating
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amd/display: Validate GPIO pin LUT table size before iterating [Why&How] The GPIO pin table parsers in get_gpio_i2c_info() and bios_parser_get_gpio_pin_info() derive an element count from…
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High 7.8
block: don't overwrite bip_vcnt in bio_integrity_copy_user()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: don't overwrite bip_vcnt in bio_integrity_copy_user() bio_integrity_add_page() already sets bip_vcnt to 1 for the bounce segment. Overwriting it with nr_vecs breaks bip_vcnt <= bip_max…
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High 7.8
cgroup/rstat: validate cpu before css_rstat_cpu() access
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cgroup/rstat: validate cpu before css_rstat_cpu() access css_rstat_updated() is exposed as a BPF kfunc and accepts a caller-provided cpu argument. The function uses cpu for per-cpu rstat look…
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High 8.8
wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_epcs
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: bounds-check link_id in ieee80211_ml_epcs IEEE80211_MLE_STA_EPCS_CONTROL_LINK_ID is 0x000f, so link_id extracted from a PRIO_ACCESS ML element PER_STA_PROFILE subelement can b…
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Critical 9.3
net: mana: validate rx_req_idx to prevent out-of-bounds array access
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mana: validate rx_req_idx to prevent out-of-bounds array access In mana_hwc_rx_event_handler(), rx_req_idx is derived from sge->address in DMA-coherent memory. In Confidential VMs (SEV-S…
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Critical 9.8
net: hsr: fix potential OOB access in supervision frame handling
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: hsr: fix potential OOB access in supervision frame handling Ensure the entire TLV header is linearized before access by adding sizeof(struct hsr_sup_tlv) to the pskb_may_pull() calls. Wi…
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Critical 9.1
tunnels: do not assume transport header in iptunnel_pmtud_check_icmp()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tunnels: do not assume transport header in iptunnel_pmtud_check_icmp() In some cases, iptunnel_pmtud_check_icmp() can be called while skb transport header is not set. This triggers an out-of-…
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High 7.8
ethtool: eeprom: add more safeties to EEPROM Netlink fallback
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: eeprom: add more safeties to EEPROM Netlink fallback The Netlink fallback path for reading module EEPROM (fallback_set_params()) validates that offset < eeprom_len, but does not chec…
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High 8.8
Bluetooth: HIDP: fix missing length checks in hidp_input_report()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: HIDP: fix missing length checks in hidp_input_report() hidp_input_report() reads keyboard and mouse payload data from an skb without first verifying that skb->len contains enough d…
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Critical 9.3
KVM: SEV: Check PSC request indices against the actual size of the buffer
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SEV: Check PSC request indices against the actual size of the buffer When processing Page State Change (PSC) requests, validate the PSC buffer against the effective size of the scratch a…
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High 7.1
ipv6: validate extension header length before copying to cmsg
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: validate extension header length before copying to cmsg ip6_datagram_recv_specific_ctl() builds IPV6_{HOPOPTS,DSTOPTS,RTHDR} cmsgs (and their IPV6_2292* legacy counterparts) by trusting…
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Critical 9.8
xfrm: esp: restore combined single-frag length gate
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: esp: restore combined single-frag length gate The ESP out-of-place fast path appends the trailer in esp_output_head() before esp_output_tail() allocates the destination page frag. The h…
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High 8.8
ocfs2: reject oversized group bitmap descriptors
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: reject oversized group bitmap descriptors ocfs2_validate_gd_parent() only bounds bg_bits against the parent allocator's chain geometry. A malicious descriptor can still claim a bg_size…
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High 7.1
fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of fbcon_do_set_font()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of fbcon_do_set_font() When fbcon_do_set_font() fails (e.g., due to a memory allocation failure inside vc_resize() under heavy memory pressure)…
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High 8.8
drm/amdgpu/vce: Prevent partial address patches
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu/vce: Prevent partial address patches In the case that only one of lo/hi is valid, the patching could result in a bad address written to in FW.
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Medium 5.3
liftoff-sr CIPster cipepath.cc deserialize_symbolic out-of-bounds
A vulnerability has been found in liftoff-sr CIPster up to 632336d414ef708a542377c1aa8d6fdb7c70a760. Affected by this issue is the function CipAppPath::deserialize_symbolic of the file source/src/cip/cipepath.cc. Such manipulation leads to out-of-bounds read.…
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Medium 5.9
h2o is vulnerable to heap overrun
h2o is an HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Prior to commit 8dc37cb, when h2o receives a ClientHello message over TLS or QUIC and it contains a zero-length SNI extension, the h2o server runs over the zero-length hostname while trying t…
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High 7.7
YAML::Syck versions before 1.47 for Perl allow an out-of-bounds read via an unbounded newline scan in newline_len
YAML::Syck versions before 1.47 for Perl allow an out-of-bounds read via an unbounded newline scan in newline_len. In the bundled libsyck newline_len and is_newline dereference the scan pointer, and the following byte for a "\r\n" pair, with no NUL-terminator…
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Critical 9.1
YAML::Syck versions before 1.47 for Perl allow an out-of-bounds read via a signed-char lookup-table index in syck_base64dec
YAML::Syck versions before 1.47 for Perl allow an out-of-bounds read via a signed-char lookup-table index in syck_base64dec. The base64 decoder in the bundled libsyck indexes the 256-entry static table b64_xtable with a signed char, so any !!binary byte >= 0x…
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Medium 5.9
AutomationDirect Productivity Suite Out-of-bounds Read
An out-of-bounds read in the Productivity Suite allows a physical attacker to control the length of data sent to a USB device. This can lead to a system crash or disclosure of kernel memory.
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Medium 6.1
AutomationDirect Productivity Suite Out-of-bounds Read
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Productivity Suite allows a local attacker to trigger kernel memory corruption by sending a crafted IOCTL request. This could lead to limited information disclosure or disruption of the affected product.
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Medium 6.1
AutomationDirect Productivity Suite Out-of-bounds Read
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Productivity Suite allows a local attacker to trigger kernel memory corruption by sending a crafted IOCTL request. This can lead to exposing sensitive information or causing the affected product to become unstable or…
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Medium 5.5
rz-libdemangle: Out of bound read in rust demangler
rz-libdemangle is a Rizin library for demangling symbols. Prior to 6bf56d3, the Rust demangler in src/rust/rust_v0.c can perform an out-of-bounds read when the demangler structure is not yet initialized. This issue is fixed in commit 6bf56d3.
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Critical 9.1
XML::Bare versions through 0.53 for Perl have an unbounded character lookahead
XML::Bare versions through 0.53 for Perl have an unbounded character lookahead. The parserc_parse function attempts to check for multicharacter strings such as "<![CDATA" or element terminators such as ">" without checking that the offsets are within the buff…
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Critical 9.1
HTML::Bare versions through 0.04 for Perl have an unbounded character lookahead
HTML::Bare versions through 0.04 for Perl have an unbounded character lookahead. The parserc_parse function attempts to check for multicharacter strings such as "<![CDATA" or element terminators such as ">" without checking that the offsets are within the buf…
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Medium 6.5CVE-2026-47729 Public exploit
Squid: Memory disclosure in FTP gateway
Squid is a caching proxy for the Web. Prior to 7.6, due to an improper validation of syntactic correctness of input in the FTP gateway (src/clients/FtpGateway.cc), Squid is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds read: when a listing entry date in the TypeA or TypeB d…
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Medium 5.4
TDengine: Authenticated Out-of-Bounds Read in SQL Lexer tGetToken
TDengine is a time-series database optimized for Internet of Things devices. Prior to 3.4.1.14, source/libs/parser/src/parTokenizer.c tGetToken() incremented past a trailing backslash in a SQL string literal such as 'abc\ and read one byte beyond the null ter…
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High 7.5
TDengine: Unauthenticated Remote Denial of Service via Out-of-Bounds Read in transDecompressMsg
TDengine is a time-series database optimized for Internet of Things devices. Prior to 3.4.1.15, source/libs/transport/src/transComm.c transDecompressMsg() read STransCompMsg.contLen when pHead->comp == 1 without first validating that the RPC packet contained …
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High 8.3
Out-of-bounds write in ADIN2111/ADIN1110 OA SPI Ethernet RX frame reassembly
The Zephyr ADIN2111/ADIN1110 10BASE-T1S/T1L Ethernet driver (drivers/ethernet/eth_adin2111.c) reassembles received Ethernet frames in OPEN Alliance (OA) SPI mode by copying device-supplied 64-byte data chunks into a fixed static buffer ctx->buf of size CONFIG…
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Low 3.7
NGINX Plus ngx_stream_mqtt_filter_module vulnerability
When NGINX Plus is configured to use the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) filter module (ngx_stream_mqtt_filter_module), unauthenticated attackers can send requests with conditions beyond the attacker's control to cause a heap buffer over-read in th…
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Low 2.9
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 Information Disclosure via identify
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 and 6.9.13-51 contains an information disclosure vulnerability: when a profile is displayed with the identify command and the profile value is not printable, a single byte at the end of the profile can be printed (read past the pro…
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Medium 5.6
Out-of-bounds Read in ASUS System Control Interface v3, ASUS System Control Interface, and ASUS Business Manager allows…
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Medium 5.1
A heap overflow in the ifsbreakup() function (shell/ash.c) of Busybox v1.38.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Ser…
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Medium 5.5
Media Encoder | Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)
Media Encoder is affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to disclose sensitive information. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a…
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Medium 6.5
Libsoup: soupmultipartinputstream: libsoup: out-of-bounds read in soup_multipart_input_stream_read_headers via an oversized multipart boundary string
An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in libsoup's multipart processing subsystem. The flaw exists in the soup_multipart_input_stream_read_headers() function inside soup-multipart-input-stream.c, which does not adequately restrict or validate the size…
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High 8.6
Pre-auth heap out-of-bounds read in the AMF NAS 5GS mobile-identity handler
In Open5GS through version 2.7.7 a pre-authentication heap out-of-bounds read in the AMF NAS 5GS mobile-identity handler may result in subscriber-wide denial of service.