Weakness (CWE)
CWE-130: Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency
The product parses a formatted message or structure, but it does not handle or incorrectly handles a length field that is inconsistent with the actual length of the associated data.
More detail
If an attacker can manipulate the length parameter associated with an input such that it is inconsistent with the actual length of the input, this can be leveraged to cause the target application to behave in unexpected, and possibly, malicious ways. One of the possible motives for doing so is to pass in arbitrarily large input to the application. Another possible motivation is the modification of application state by including invalid data for subsequent properties of the application. Such weaknesses commonly lead to attacks such as buffer overflows and execution of arbitrary code.
How to prevent it (3 mitigations)
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Implementation
When processing structured incoming data containing a size field followed by raw data, ensure that you identify and resolve any inconsistencies between the size field and the actual size of the data.
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Implementation
Do not let the user control the size of the buffer.
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Implementation
Validate that the length of the user-supplied data is consistent with the buffer size.
Source: MITRE CWE-130
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Medium 5.5
buffer overruns in libfsimage iso9660 handling
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Medium 5.5
buffer overruns in libfsimage iso9660 handling
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Medium 4.8
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Critical 9.2
websocket-driver: Message corruption via abuse of protocol length headers
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Medium 5.3
Zeroconf: Unvalidated rdlength in record payload readers allows LAN-local cache corruption via crafted mDNS packet
Zeroconf is a pure Python implementation of multicast DNS service discovery. Prior to 0.149.16, _read_character_string and _read_string in src/zeroconf/_protocol/incoming.py advanced self.offset by attacker-declared RDLENGTH without checking it against self._…
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Medium 6.3
Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency (CWE-130) vulnerability exists in TTSSH2 plugin of Tera Term provid…
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Medium 4.8
Envoy: PROXY Protocol v2 header generator emits "skipped" TLVs, causing 65 KB attacker-controlled spillover into the upstream application stream
Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. From 1.34.0 until 1.35.13, 1.36.9, 1.37.5, and 1.38.3, PROXY Protocol v2 header generator emits TLVs beyond the maximum length of 65535 bytes, causing a mismatch between by…
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Medium 5.3
Improper bounds validation in EmberZNet SDK
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Medium 5.9
OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation: CPU-mismatch fallback uses 256-byte buffer with 8KB size
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High 8.2
mouse07410/asn1c: 1-byte Heap Out-of-Bounds Read in `INTEGER_decode_oer` via Malformed OER Payload
mouse07410/asn1c is an ASN.1 compiler. In 1.4 and earlier, a memory safety vulnerability was identified in the OER decoding skeleton files generated by asn1c (specifically INTEGER_oer.c). When parsing a maliciously crafted, zero-length OER payload for a varia…
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Medium 6.5
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Critical 9.2
Invalid IP packets cause a kernel panic
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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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Critical 9.8
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Medium 5.3
Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in ASGI requests via file upload limit bypass
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High 7.5
Gnutls: gnutls: denial of service via heap buffer overflow in dtls handshake fragment reassembly
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the DTLS handshake fragment reassembly logic of GnuTLS. The issue arises in merge_handshake_packet() where incoming handshake fragments are matched and merged based solely on handshake type, without validating th…
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High 8.1
Heap overflow in libnv
When processing the header of an incoming message, libnv failed to properly validate the message size. The lack of validation allows a malicious program to write outside the bounds of a heap allocation. This can trigger a crash or system panic, and it may be …
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High 8.7
An improper handling of the length parameter inconsistency vulnerability has been identified in Moxa’s Secure Router. B…
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High 8.3
rust-openssl: Unchecked callback-returned length in PSK and cookie generate trampolines can cause OpenSSL to leak adjacent memory to the network peer
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High 7.5CVE-2026-31635 Public exploit
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Medium 6.5
Ovn: ovn: heap over-read in icmp error response generation
When generating an ICMP Destination Unreachable or Packet Too Big response, the handler copies a portion of the original packet into the ICMP error body using the IP header's self-declared total length (ip_tot_len for IPv4, ip6_plen for IPv6) without validati…
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High 8.6
Ovn: ovn: information disclosure via crafted dhcpv6 packets
A flaw was found in OVN (Open Virtual Network). A remote attacker, by sending crafted DHCPv6 (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6) SOLICIT packets with an inflated Client ID length, could cause the ovn-controller to read beyond the bounds of a packet…
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High 7.4
In rsync 3.0.1 through 3.4.1, receive_xattr relies on an untrusted length value during a qsort call, leading to a recei…
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Medium 4.0CVE-2026-33555 Public exploit
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Medium 6.5
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Medium 4.8
Rack: Content-Length mismatch in Rack::Files error responses
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Prior to versions 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6, Rack::Files#fail sets the Content-Length response header using String#size instead of String#bytesize. When the response body contains multibyte UTF-8 characters, the de…
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Medium 5.3CVE-2026-33936 Public exploit
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High 7.4
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Medium 5.1
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Medium 5.1
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Medium 6.0
A vulnerability has been found in Vnet/IP Interface Package provided by Yokogawa Electric Corporation. If affected prod…
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High 8.8
iccDEV has a heap-buffer-overflow in SIccCalcOp::Describe() at IccProfLib/IccMpeCalc.cpp
iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of International Color Consortium (ICC) color management profiles. Prior to 2.3.1.2, There is a heap-based buffer overflow in SIccCalcOp::Describe() at …
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High 8.8
iccDEV has heap-buffer-overflow in CIccCLUT::Init() at IccProfLib/IccTagLut.cpp
iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of International Color Consortium (ICC) color management profiles. Versions prior to 2.3.1.2 have a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in `CIccCLUT::Ini…
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High 8.8
iccDEV has heap-buffer-overflow in SIccCalcOp::Describe() at IccProfLib/IccMpeCalc.cpp
iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of International Color Consortium (ICC) color management profiles. Versions prior to 2.3.1.2 have a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in `SIccCalcOp::D…
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High 8.8
iccDEV has heap-buffer-overflow in CIccProfileXml::ParseBasic() at IccXML/IccLibXML/IccProfileXml.cpp
iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of International Color Consortium (ICC) color management profiles. Versions prior to 2.3.1.2 have a heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability in `CIccProfileXm…
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High 7.5
Zlib compressed protocol header length confusion may allow memory read
Mismatched length fields in Zlib compressed protocol headers may allow a read of uninitialized heap memory by an unauthenticated client. This issue affects all MongoDB Server v7.0 prior to 7.0.28 versions, MongoDB Server v8.0 versions prior to 8.0.17, MongoDB…
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Medium 6.8
Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric Corporation MELSEC-Q Series Q0…
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High 7.6
Bluetooth: le_conn_rsp does not sanitize CID, MTU, MPS values
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Medium 5.5
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Medium 5.3
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