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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2008-2304

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

Buffer overflow in Apple Core Image Fun House 2.0 and earlier in CoreImage Examples in Xcode tools before 3.1 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a .funhouse file with a string XML element that contains many characters.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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