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

CVE-2023-36243

High
7.8/10

Summary

FLVMeta v1.2.1 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the xml_on_metadata_tag_only function at dump_xml.c.

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