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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2022-34454

Medium
6.7/10

Summary

Dell PowerScale OneFS, versions 8.2.x-9.3.x, contain a heap-based buffer overflow. A local privileged malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to system takeover. This impacts compliance mode clusters.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH
  • 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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Advisory Timeline

  • Published