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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2024-22532

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in XNSoft NConvert 7.163 (for Windows x86) allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted xwd file.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • 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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  • Published