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Stack-based Buffer Overflow in domutils

Cxe299c2b0-ccc8

  • domutils
High
7.5/10

Summary

Domutils before version 1.6.0 is vulnerable to stack overflow. The function findAll in the file querying.js uses a recursive method to find elements, leading to stack overflow when ran against a huge page. This affects the availability.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow

A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).

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