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Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CVE-2021-27343

High
7.5/10

Summary

SerenityOS Unspecified is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: obtain sensitive information (context-dependent). The component is: /Userland/Libraries/LibCrypto/ASN1/DER.h Crypto::der_decode_sequence() function. The attack vector is: Parsing RSA Key ASN.1.

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

CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

The program copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.

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