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

CVE-2023-42757

Medium
4.2/10

Summary

Process Explorer before 17.04 allows attackers to make it functionally unavailable (a denial of service for analysis) by renaming an executable file to a new extensionless 255-character name and launching it with NtCreateUserProcess. This can occur through an issue in wcscat_s error handling.

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