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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2024-10253

Severity Medium
Score 4.7/10

Summary

A potential TOCTOU vulnerability was reported in PC Manager, Lenovo Browser, and Lenovo App Store that could allow a local attacker to cause a system crash.

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

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