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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Low 3.7
MariaDB Connector/J : XA recover() trusted server-supplied gtrid and bqual lengths
MariaDB Connector/J is used to connect applications developed in Java to MariaDB and MySQL databases. From 3.0.0 until 3.3.7, 3.4.5, and 3.5.11, the MariaDbPoolConnection.recover() and MariaDbPoolPinnedConnection.recover() implementations trusted the gtrid_le…
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devalue: Sparse arrays emitted by uneval cause eager allocation when evaluated
Evaluating legitimate `uneval` output for a sparse array can allocate memory proportional to its declared length. A tiny serialized value can therefore cause large memory allocation in a consuming browser/runtime. This occurs during evaluation of generated co…
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Low 3.3
KeePass 2.35 through 2.61.1 Memory Exhaustion via KDBX Header Field Size
KeePass versions 2.35 through 2.61.1 fail to validate KDBX header field sizes before memory allocation in the ReadHeaderField function. Attackers can craft a malicious KDBX file declaring excessive header field lengths to trigger allocation of gigabytes of me…
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Low 2.4CVE-2026-55781 Public exploit
NanaZip: Unbounded memory allocation (DoS) in NanaZip UFS parser via unvalidated fs_bsize/fs_fsize superblock fields
NanaZip is the 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience. Prior to 6.5.1749.0, NanaZip's UFS and FFS image handler in NanaZip.Codecs.Archive.Ufs.cpp validates the superblock block size only against the MINBSIZE lower bound and does not valid…
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Low 2.4
NanaZip: Unbounded memory allocation (DoS) in NanaZip WebAssembly parser via attacker-controlled section/name length fields
NanaZip is the 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience. Prior to 6.5.1749.0, NanaZip's WebAssembly archive handler in NanaZip.Codecs.Archive.WebAssembly.cpp allocates buffers from attacker-controlled 32-bit section and custom-name length f…
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Low 2.1
Email-derived URL path injection in the Swoosh Microsoft Graph adapter
URL path injection in the Microsoft Graph adapter of Swoosh. Swoosh.Adapters.MsGraph builds its Microsoft Graph API request URL by interpolating the sender's email address into the URL path (/users/{from}/sendMail) without percent-encoding or validation. In a…
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Low 3.3
HdrHistogram AbstractHistogram.java memory allocation
A flaw has been found in HdrHistogram up to 2.2.2. This affects the function org.HdrHistogram.AbstractHistogram.decodeFromByteBuffer of the file src/main/java/org/HdrHistogram/AbstractHistogram.java. This manipulation of the argument numberOfSignificantValueD…
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Low 3.3
HdrHistogram AbstractHistogram.java memory allocation
A vulnerability was detected in HdrHistogram up to 2.2.2. Affected by this issue is the function org.HdrHistogram.AbstractHistogram.decodeFromCompressedByteBuffer of the file src/main/java/org/HdrHistogram/AbstractHistogram.java. The manipulation of the argum…
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Low 3.1
FreeRDP has an Integer Underflow in update_read_cache_bitmap_order Function of FreeRDP's Core Library
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol. Prior to 3.24.0, Integer Underflow in update_read_cache_bitmap_order Function of FreeRDP's Core Library This vulnerability is fixed in 3.24.0.
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Low 3.5
Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in GitLab
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.9 before 18.3.6, 18.4 before 18.4.4, and 18.5 before 18.5.2 that could have allowed an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service condition by submitting specially crafted …
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Low 3.1
Denial of service in Tendermint
Tendermint before versions 0.33.3, 0.32.10, and 0.31.12 has a denial-of-service vulnerability. Tendermint does not limit the number of P2P connection requests. For each p2p connection, it allocates XXX bytes. Even though this memory is garbage collected once …