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

CVE-2024-22919

High
7.8/10

Summary

swftools0.9.2 was discovered to contain a global-buffer-overflow vulnerability via the function parseExpression at swftools/src/swfc.c:2587.

  • 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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