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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2018-7759

High
7.5/10

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Schneider Electric's Modicon M340, Modicon Premium, Modicon Quantum PLC, BMXNOR0200. The buffer overflow vulnerability is caused by the length of the source string specified (instead of the buffer size) as the number of bytes to be copied.

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

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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  • Published