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

CVE-2024-39207

High
7.3/10

Summary

The package lua-shmem is discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the "shmem_write" function.

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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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