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

CVE-2024-53425

Severity Medium
Score 6.2/10

Summary

A Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability was discovered in the "SkipSpacesAndLineEnd" function in Assimp versions prior to 6.0.0. This issue occurs when processing certain malformed MD5 model files, leading to an out-of-bounds read and potential application crash.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • 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.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published