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Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

CVE-2022-25716

Medium
6.7/10

Summary

Memory corruption in Multimedia Framework due to unsafe access to the data members

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

The software checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the software to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.

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  • Published