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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2021-21808

High
8.1/10

Summary

A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the PNG png_palette_process functionality of Accusoft ImageGear 19.9. A specially crafted malformed file can lead to a heap buffer overflow. An attacker can provide malicious inputs to trigger this vulnerability.

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