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

CVE-2023-28736

Medium
5.7/10

Summary

Buffer overflow in some Intel(R) SSD Tools software before version mdadm-4.2-rc2 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • LOW
  • 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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