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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2021-37199

High
7.5/10

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in SINUMERIK 808D (All versions), SINUMERIK 828D (All versions < V4.95). Affected devices don't process correctly certain special crafted packets sent to port 102/tcp, which could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service in the device.

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

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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  • Published