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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2023-24474

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

Experion server may experience a DoS due to a heap overflow which could occur when handling a specially crafted message

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

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