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

CVE-2022-46456

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

NASM v2.16 was discovered to contain a global buffer overflow in the component dbgdbg_typevalue at /output/outdbg.c.

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

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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