Weakness (CWE)
CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
The product allocates memory based on an untrusted, large size value, but it does not ensure that the size is within expected limits, allowing arbitrary amounts of memory to be allocated.
How to prevent it (2 mitigations)
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Implementation, Architecture and Design
Perform adequate input validation against any value that influences the amount of memory that is allocated. Define an appropriate strategy for handling requests that exceed the limit, and consider supporting a configuration option so that the administrator can extend the amount of memory to be used if necessary.
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Operation
Run your program using system-provided resource limits for memory. This might still cause the program to crash or exit, but the impact to the rest of the system will be minimized.
Source: MITRE CWE-789
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High 7.5
Imager versions before 1.037 for Perl exit the process reading a raw image with an out-of-range raw_datachannels value in i_readraw_wiol
Imager versions before 1.037 for Perl exit the process reading a raw image with an out-of-range raw_datachannels value in i_readraw_wiol. Nothing range-checks raw_datachannels. The line buffer is sized as the image width times the channel count with no overfl…
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High 8.7
Apache PLC4X: Go binding: unbounded allocation and framing failures on wire-controlled lengths
Integer Overflow, Improper Validation of Array Index, Uncontrolled Recursion and Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in the Go implementation of Apache PLC4X (PLC4Go) allow a malicious device, or an attacker able to inject network traffic, to crash or…
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High 8.7
Apache PLC4X, Apache PLC4X: Pre-authentication resource exhaustion in the OPC UA driver and the Java SPI parser
Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value, Allocation of Resources Without Limits, and Uncontrolled Recursion in the Java implementation of Apache PLC4X (PLC4J) allow a malicious or impersonated device to exhaust the memory or stack of the client applicatio…
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High 7.5
Apache Qpid Broker-J: Type size/count handling can lead to excessive allocation pre-authentication in the AMQP 0-8/0-9/0-9-1 decoder
A pre-authentication attacker could leverage type size/count handling to cause excessive allocation leading to potential denial of service. This issue affects Apache Qpid Broker-J: through 10.1.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 10.1.1, which fixe…
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High 7.5
hiredis commit 29ea279 (post-v1.5.0) contains an uncontrolled memory allocation vulnerability in its RESP aggregate par…
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High 7.5
SIPGO: DoS via unvalidated WebSocket frame length
SIPGO is a library for writing SIP services in the GO language. Prior to 1.4.3, WSConnection.Read in sip/transport_ws.go creates a wsutil.Reader without setting MaxFrameSize, allowing NextFrame to accept a client-controlled header.Length before ParseMaxMessag…
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High 7.5
SIPGO: DoS via unvalidated Content-Length in the stream parser
SIPGO is a library for writing SIP services in the GO language. Prior to 1.4.1, ParserStream.parseSingle in sip/parser_stream.go allocates a SIP body buffer from the client-controlled Content-Length header before ParseMaxMessageLength is enforced. An unauthen…
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High 7.5
psd-tools: Uncontrolled memory allocation in psd-tools composite/numpy via crafted PSD geometry
psd-tools is a Python package for working with Adobe Photoshop PSD files. Prior to 1.17.4, PSDImage.composite() and PSDImage.numpy() allocated output buffers from attacker-controlled PSD header geometry, including width, height, channels, depth, and per-layer…
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High 8.7
Vector: Unauthenticated denial of service in the `logstash` source via unbounded memory allocation.
Vector is a high-performance observability data pipeline. From 0.15.0 until 0.57.0, the logstash source reads a 32-bit compressed-frame length from the network and uses it to size an in-memory buffer without an upper bound. An unauthenticated remote peer that…
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High 7.5
vLLM through 0.29.0 Memory Exhaustion via Unvalidated NIXL tp_size
vLLM through 0.29.0 fails to validate the tp_size parameter in kv_transfer_params on OpenAI-compatible completion endpoints, allowing attackers to allocate unbounded memory. Attackers can supply arbitrary tp_size values in prefill/decode disaggregated deploym…
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High 7.5
Apache MINA: Unbounded Decompression Amplification DoS in Zlib.inflate
The CompressionFilter class uses ZLib to deflate and inflate data sent and received. When we inflate incoming data, the filter does not control the resulting size, and create a buffer no matter what. Some compressed data may have a compression ration greater …
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High 7.5
adm-zip: Uncontrolled memory allocation via the declared uncompressed size (DoS)
adm-zip is a JavaScript library for creating and extracting ZIP archives in Node.js. Prior to 0.6.1, getData() in zipEntry.js trusts an entry's central-directory uncompressed size and allocates output memory before validating that value against the actual com…
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High 7.5
ExifReader: DoS via Crafted HEIC/AVIF iloc Box - Memory Exhaustion
ExifReader is a JavaScript Exif information parser. Prior to 4.41.1, ExifReader parses attacker-controlled HEIC or AVIF ISO-BMFF files in getItems() within src/image-header-iso-bmff-iloc.js and trusts iloc itemCount and extentCount values while allocating an …
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High 8.6
Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Secure Firewall Threat Defense Software sftunnel Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the sftunnel inter-device communication protocol of Cisco Secure FMC Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to exhaust the available memory of an affected device. This vulnerability is due to …
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High 8.9
RabbitMQ amqp091-go: Resource Exhaustion (OOM) via Unbounded Body Buffer Allocation
RabbitMQ amqp091-go is a Go AMQP 0.9.1 client. Prior to 1.13.0, Channel.recvContent in channel.go preallocates the message body slice with the uint64 ch.header.Size value supplied by an AMQP content header without capping the allocation to the negotiated Conn…
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High 7.5
Vouch Proxy: Unbounded Multipart Cookie Allocation DoS
Vouch Proxy is an SSO and OAuth/OIDC login solution for Nginx using the auth_request module. Prior to 0.48.0, Cookie in pkg/cookie/cookie.go parses the total part count from an attacker-controlled multipart cookie name and passes the value to make([]string, n…
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High 7.5
GNU libextractor before 1.15 Stack Overflow via OLE2
GNU libextractor before 1.15 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the process_star_office function that sizes a variable-length stack array from attacker-controlled OLE2 stream data. Attackers can craft malicious StarOffice documents that a…
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High 7.5
Apache OpenNLP: OOM DoS via Unbounded Array Allocation in SymSpellModelSerializer
OOM Denial of Service via Unbounded Map Pre-Sizing in Apache OpenNLP SymSpellModelSerializer Versions Affected: - 3.0.0-M4 - 3.0.0-M5 (The opennlp-spellcheck extension was introduced in 3.0.0-M4. Releases 1.x and 2.x do not contain the affected code.) Descrip…
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High 7.5
rclone: S3 multipart declared-length memory exhaustion
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. From 1.75.0 until 1.75.1, the serve S3 streamed multipart path in cmd/serve/s3/multipart.go passes attacker-controlled contentLength to multipart.New…
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High 8.7
A client may send a WebSocket frame with an unknown opcode and a very large declared payload length, causing Jetty to a…
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High 7.5
MOOS-IvP through 24.8.1 BHV_IPF Demultiplexer Memory Exhaustion via Packet Count
MOOS-IvP through 24.8.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the Demuxer::addMuxPacket() function that trusts the packet count declared in mux headers without validation. Attackers can declare arbitrarily large packet counts to trigger unbounded memo…
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High 7.5
MOOS core-moos through 10.4.0 MOOSDB Denial of Service via Unbounded Packet Allocation
MOOS core-moos through 10.4.0 fails to validate packet length declarations in CMOOSCommPkt::OnBytesWritten(), allowing unauthenticated attackers to trigger unbounded buffer allocation by sending crafted wire packets. Attackers can send packets with large decl…
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High 7.5
openssl_encrypt before 1.4.9 Denial of Service via QR total field
openssl_encrypt before 1.4.9 fails to validate the total field from QR JSON payloads before materializing ranges. Attackers can supply crafted QR images with extremely large total values to trigger unbounded memory allocation and cause denial of service throu…
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High 7.5
openssl_encrypt before 1.4.9 Denial of Service via STREAMINFO
openssl_encrypt (pip: openssl-encrypt) versions 1.4.8 and earlier fail to validate the 36-bit STREAMINFO total_samples field of FLAC files before using it to size an allocation (np.random.randint(size=(total_samples, channels))). A ~50-byte crafted FLAC file …
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High 8.7
kin-openapi: Uncontrolled resource consumption in openapi3filter deepObject query parameter decoding
kin-openapi is a Go project for handling OpenAPI files. From 0.124.0 until 0.142.0, openapi3filter.sliceMapToSlice in openapi3filter/req_resp_decoder.go converts attacker-controlled sparse indexes from a deepObject query parameter into a dense slice by alloca…
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High 7.5
Memory-amplification denial of service via declared-length preallocation in Amazon ion-java
Uncontrolled memory allocation in the binary Ion stream cursor in Amazon ion-java before 1.12.0 might allow remote actors to cause a denial of service via a crafted Ion binary document containing a declared-length field that causes excessive heap preallocatio…
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High 8.7
RabbitMQ Java client ValueReader: Oversized LongString/bytes length triggers OOM via unchecked allocation
The RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with RabbitMQ nodes. Prior to 5.33.1, src/main/java/com/rabbitmq/client/impl/ValueReader.java uses ValueReader.readBytes to accept a wire-declared contentLength…
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High 7.5
Excessive memory allocation during VP8L decoding in golang.org/x/image
VP8L decoding in golang.org/x/image/vp8l can allocate an excessive amount of memory when processing a crafted VP8L image containing many unused Huffman tree groups. This allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via memory exhaustion.
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High 7.5
Net::CIDR::Set versions before 0.23 for Perl allow memory exhaustion and malformed set ranges via unbounded IPv6 prefix lengths
Net::CIDR::Set versions before 0.23 for Perl allow memory exhaustion and malformed set ranges via unbounded IPv6 prefix lengths. The _encode method accepts any prefix length matching `(0|[1-9][0-9]*)` and passes it to _width2bits(), which builds the mask as `…
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High 7.5
Wildfly: wildfly-iiop: wildfly-jacorb: wildfly: pre-auth denial of service on the iiop listener
A flaw was found in Wildfly. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trigger OutOfMemoryError as CSIv2Util's GSS token decoder reads an attacker-controlled length field without bounds checking and attempts to allocate a byte array of that size.
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High 7.5
Apache IoTDB: RPC service denial of service via unchecked Thrift string length
Improper validation of length fields in the Apache IoTDB RPC service may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service. By sending a crafted malformed Thrift frame, an attacker can cause IoTDB to allocate an excessive amount of memory a…
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High 7.5
Sonic 3 A.I.R. Unbounded Memory Allocation DoS via ReceivedPacketCache
Sonic 3 A.I.R. before commit 2492d18 contains an unbounded memory allocation vulnerability in ReceivedPacketCache::enqueuePacket() that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash the server process by sending a crafted UDP packet with mUniquePacketID se…
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High 7.5
Nuxt: Unauthenticated out-of-memory crash via unbounded v-for expansion in island rendering
Nuxt is an open-source web development framework for Vue.js. From 3.1.0 until 3.21.10 and 4.5.1, an unauthenticated attacker can use a server island v-for prop, including vforToArray and , to trigger unbounded SSR memory allocation until MAX_VFOR_LENGTH = 100…
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High 7.5
imagecli - Uncontrolled Memory Allocation via Unbounded scale Ratio Causes Denial of Service
imagecli's pipeline operation (Scale::apply in src/image_ops.rs) computes output width/height as (dimension as f32 * ratio) as u32 with no upper-bound validation on the CLI-supplied ratio, which is parsed via nom::number::complete::float with no range check. …
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High 7.5
Apache Qpid ProtonJ2: Type size/count handling can lead to excessive allocation pre-authentication
A pre-authentication attacker could leverage type size/count handling to cause excessive allocation leading to potential denial of service. This issue affects Apache Qpid ProtonJ2: through 1.1.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.2.0, which fixes …
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High 7.5
Apache Qpid Proton Dotnet: Type size/count handling can lead to excessive allocation pre-authentication
pre-authentication attacker could leverage type size/count handling to cause excessive allocation leading to potential denial of service. This issue affects Apache Qpid Proton-Dotnet: through 1.0.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.1.0, which fix…
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High 7.5
Apache Qpid Proton-J: Type size/count handling can lead to excessive allocation pre-authentication
A pre-authentication attacker could leverage type size/count handling to cause excessive allocation leading to potential denial of service. This issue affects Apache Qpid Proton-J: through 0.34.1. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.35.0, which fixe…
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High 8.7
A vulnerability in Veeam Service Provider Console allowing an unauthenticated attacker to exhaust host memory and cause…
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High 8.7
MLS wire decoder allocates attacker-declared opaque length before bounds check
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, MLS wire decoder allocates attacker-declared opaque length before bounds check.
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High 8.7
Possible OOM from unbounded up-front allocation on a definite-length read
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Possible OOM from unbounded up-front allocation on a definite-length read. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bc-fips 1.0.2.7 (1.0.X series)…