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Medium · 5.5 Public exploit CVE-2022-1068 EUVD-2022-24412GHSA-23h3-jvqq-m7vh

Modbus Tools Modbus Slave Stack-Based Buffer Overflow

Published Apr 1, 2022 · Updated Apr 16, 2025 · Assigned by icscert

Description

Modbus Tools Modbus Slave (versions 7.4.2 and prior) is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in the registration field. This may cause the program to crash when a long character string is used.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Modbus Tools Modbus Slave unspecified – ≤ 7.4.2 —

Public exploits

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