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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2018-7851

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

CWE-119: Buffer errors vulnerability exists in Modicon M580 with firmware prior to V2.50, Modicon M340 with firmware prior to V3.01, BMxCRA312xx with firmware prior to V2.40, All firmware versions of Modicon Premium and 140CRA312xxx when sending a specially crafted Modbus packet, which could cause a denial of service to the device that would force a restart to restore availability.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • 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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Advisory Timeline

  • Published