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Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset

CVE-2024-53017

Medium
6.6/10

Summary

Memory corruption while handling test pattern generator IOCTL command.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • LOW
  • LOW

CWE-823 - Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset

The program performs pointer arithmetic on a valid pointer, but it uses an offset that can point outside of the intended range of valid memory locations for the resulting pointer.

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  • Published