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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2024-48075

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

A Heap buffer overflow in the server-site handshake implementation in Real Time Logic SharkSSL from 09/09/24 and earlier allows a remote attacker to trigger a Denial-of-Service via a malformed TLS Client Key Exchange message.

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

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