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

CVE-2022-4969

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in bwoodsend rockhopper versions through 0.1.2. Affected by this issue is the function "count_rows" of the file "rockhopper/src/ragged_array.c" of the component Binary Parser. The manipulation of the argument "raw" leads to a Buffer overflow. Local access is required to approach this attack. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-266312.

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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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