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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2024-49081

Severity Medium
Score 6.6/10

Summary

Wireless Wide Area Network Service (WwanSvc) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

  • LOW
  • PHYSICAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published