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

CVE-2022-44455

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

The appspawn and nwebspawn services within OpenHarmony-v3.1.2 and prior versions were found to be vulnerable to buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An unprivileged malicious application would be able to gain code execution within any application installed on the device or cause application crash.

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

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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