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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2022-36843

Medium
4.4/10

Summary

A heap-based overflow vulnerability in MHW_RECOG_LIB_INFO function in libSDKRecognitionText.spensdk.samsung.so library prior to SMR Sep-2022 Release 1 allows attacker to cause memory access fault.

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  • LOCAL
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  • UNCHANGED
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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