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

CVE-2024-23077

High
7.5/10

Summary

JFreeChart v1.5.4 was discovered to be vulnerable to ArrayIndexOutOfBounds via the component /chart/plot/CompassPlot.java. NOTE: this is disputed by multiple third parties who believe there was not reasonable evidence to determine the existence of a vulnerability. The submission may have been based on a tool that is not sufficiently robust for vulnerability identification.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

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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