Common Weakness Enumeration
CWE-787
Allowed-with-ReviewOut-of-bounds Write
Abstraction: Base · Status: Draft
The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
15896 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
GHSA-9CXG-6GQJ-FPJX
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-03-11 00:02 – Updated: 2022-03-17 00:01
VLAI
Details
Tenda AX1806 v1.0.0.1 was discovered to contain a stack overflow in the function saveParentControlInfo. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via the deviceName parameter.
Severity
7.5 (High)
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2022-25550"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2022-03-10T17:47:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "Tenda AX1806 v1.0.0.1 was discovered to contain a stack overflow in the function saveParentControlInfo. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via the deviceName parameter.",
"id": "GHSA-9cxg-6gqj-fpjx",
"modified": "2022-03-17T00:01:19Z",
"published": "2022-03-11T00:02:07Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25550"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/sec-bin/IoT-CVE/tree/main/Tenda/AX1806/9"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-9F29-7VG9-W67X
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-11-08 19:00 – Updated: 2022-11-09 12:00
VLAI
Details
PicoC Version 3.2.2 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow in the ExpressionCoerceFP function in expression.c when called from ExpressionParseFunctionCall.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2022-44320"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2022-11-08T15:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "PicoC Version 3.2.2 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow in the ExpressionCoerceFP function in expression.c when called from ExpressionParseFunctionCall.",
"id": "GHSA-9f29-7vg9-w67x",
"modified": "2022-11-09T12:00:23Z",
"published": "2022-11-08T19:00:23Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44320"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/jpoirier/picoc/issues/37"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://gitlab.com/zsaleeba/picoc/-/issues/48"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-9F2M-5HHF-6G65
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:02 – Updated: 2023-01-30 21:30
VLAI
Details
Use-after-free in WebAudio in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
8.8 (High)
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2019-13732"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2019-12-10T22:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "Use-after-free in WebAudio in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.",
"id": "GHSA-9f2m-5hhf-6g65",
"modified": "2023-01-30T21:30:36Z",
"published": "2022-05-24T17:02:57Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13732"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4238"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://crbug.com/1023817"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2Z5M4FPUMDNX2LDPHJKN5ZV5GIS2AKNU"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N5CIQCVS6E3ULJCNU7YJXJPO2BLQZDTK"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/27"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-08"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4606"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00032.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00036.html"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-9F42-FWFM-W8RF
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-08-16 00:00 – Updated: 2022-08-17 00:00
VLAI
Details
In Nordic nRF5 SDK for Mesh 5.0, a heap overflow vulnerability can be triggered by sending a series of segmented control packets and access packets with the same SeqAuth
Severity
8.8 (High)
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2022-35623"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2022-08-15T17:15:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "In Nordic nRF5 SDK for Mesh 5.0, a heap overflow vulnerability can be triggered by sending a series of segmented control packets and access packets with the same SeqAuth",
"id": "GHSA-9f42-fwfm-w8rf",
"modified": "2022-08-17T00:00:21Z",
"published": "2022-08-16T00:00:23Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-35623"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y3sB5JbyrTIOgvA1h9X6o8pJQBG4PjWF/edit?usp=sharing\u0026ouid=112184420235437308950\u0026rtpof=true\u0026sd=true"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-9F4G-PFX6-5G99
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-06-20 09:30 – Updated: 2024-08-19 21:35
VLAI
Details
Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the SonicOS HTTP server allows an authenticated remote attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS) via sscanf function.
Severity
7.5 (High)
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-29012"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-121",
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-06-20T09:15:11Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the SonicOS HTTP server allows an authenticated remote attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS) via sscanf function.",
"id": "GHSA-9f4g-pfx6-5g99",
"modified": "2024-08-19T21:35:07Z",
"published": "2024-06-20T09:30:59Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29012"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2024-0008"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-9F4H-JRHQ-RC6W
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:11 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:11
VLAI
Details
An issue was discovered in JasPer 1.900.8, 1.900.9, 1.900.10, 1.900.11, 1.900.12, 1.900.13, 1.900.14, 1.900.15, 1.900.16, 1.900.17, 1.900.18, 1.900.19, 1.900.20, 1.900.21, 1.900.22, 1.900.23, 1.900.24, 1.900.25, 1.900.26, 1.900.27, 1.900.28, 1.900.29, 1.900.30, 1.900.31, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.11, 2.0.12, 2.0.13, 2.0.14, 2.0.15, 2.0.16. There is a heap-based buffer overflow of size 1 in the function jas_icctxtdesc_input in libjasper/base/jas_icc.c.
Severity
8.8 (High)
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2018-19540"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2018-11-26T03:29:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "An issue was discovered in JasPer 1.900.8, 1.900.9, 1.900.10, 1.900.11, 1.900.12, 1.900.13, 1.900.14, 1.900.15, 1.900.16, 1.900.17, 1.900.18, 1.900.19, 1.900.20, 1.900.21, 1.900.22, 1.900.23, 1.900.24, 1.900.25, 1.900.26, 1.900.27, 1.900.28, 1.900.29, 1.900.30, 1.900.31, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.11, 2.0.12, 2.0.13, 2.0.14, 2.0.15, 2.0.16. There is a heap-based buffer overflow of size 1 in the function jas_icctxtdesc_input in libjasper/base/jas_icc.c.",
"id": "GHSA-9f4h-jrhq-rc6w",
"modified": "2022-05-13T01:11:53Z",
"published": "2022-05-13T01:11:53Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19540"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/mdadams/jasper/issues/182"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00003.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00023.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00025.html"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-9F4R-27XR-GWQ3
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-01 15:30 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:31
VLAI
Details
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix stack buffer overflow in hci_le_big_create_sync
hci_le_big_create_sync() uses DEFINE_FLEX to allocate a struct hci_cp_le_big_create_sync on the stack with room for 0x11 (17) BIS entries. However, conn->num_bis can hold up to HCI_MAX_ISO_BIS (31) entries — validated against ISO_MAX_NUM_BIS (0x1f) in the caller hci_conn_big_create_sync(). When conn->num_bis is between 18 and 31, the memcpy that copies conn->bis into cp->bis writes up to 14 bytes past the stack buffer, corrupting adjacent stack memory.
This is trivially reproducible: binding an ISO socket with bc_num_bis = ISO_MAX_NUM_BIS (31) and calling listen() will eventually trigger hci_le_big_create_sync() from the HCI command sync worker, causing a KASAN-detectable stack-out-of-bounds write:
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in hci_le_big_create_sync+0x256/0x3b0 Write of size 31 at addr ffffc90000487b48 by task kworker/u9:0/71
Fix this by changing the DEFINE_FLEX count from the incorrect 0x11 to HCI_MAX_ISO_BIS, which matches the maximum number of BIS entries that conn->bis can actually carry.
Severity
7.8 (High)
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-31772"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-05-01T15:16:40Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBluetooth: hci_sync: fix stack buffer overflow in hci_le_big_create_sync\n\nhci_le_big_create_sync() uses DEFINE_FLEX to allocate a\nstruct hci_cp_le_big_create_sync on the stack with room for 0x11 (17)\nBIS entries. However, conn-\u003enum_bis can hold up to HCI_MAX_ISO_BIS (31)\nentries \u2014 validated against ISO_MAX_NUM_BIS (0x1f) in the caller\nhci_conn_big_create_sync(). When conn-\u003enum_bis is between 18 and 31,\nthe memcpy that copies conn-\u003ebis into cp-\u003ebis writes up to 14 bytes\npast the stack buffer, corrupting adjacent stack memory.\n\nThis is trivially reproducible: binding an ISO socket with\nbc_num_bis = ISO_MAX_NUM_BIS (31) and calling listen() will\neventually trigger hci_le_big_create_sync() from the HCI command\nsync worker, causing a KASAN-detectable stack-out-of-bounds write:\n\n BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in hci_le_big_create_sync+0x256/0x3b0\n Write of size 31 at addr ffffc90000487b48 by task kworker/u9:0/71\n\nFix this by changing the DEFINE_FLEX count from the incorrect 0x11 to\nHCI_MAX_ISO_BIS, which matches the maximum number of BIS entries that\nconn-\u003ebis can actually carry.",
"id": "GHSA-9f4r-27xr-gwq3",
"modified": "2026-05-11T21:31:29Z",
"published": "2026-05-01T15:30:35Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31772"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aba0aea354015794e8312dd7efe726967e58aefe"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc39a094730ce062fa034a529c93147c096cb488"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eaf32002ca7b1ba51c9f140991fd9febe6de79f0"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5d446624345d309e7a4a1b27ea9f028d6a8c5d9"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-9F4W-5H89-5MHQ
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:45 – Updated: 2022-05-24 17:45
VLAI
Details
DaviewIndy has a Heap-based overflow vulnerability, triggered when the user opens a malformed ex.j2c format file that is mishandled by Daview.exe. Attackers could exploit this and arbitrary code execution.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2020-7852"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2021-03-24T22:15:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "DaviewIndy has a Heap-based overflow vulnerability, triggered when the user opens a malformed ex.j2c format file that is mishandled by Daview.exe. Attackers could exploit this and arbitrary code execution.",
"id": "GHSA-9f4w-5h89-5mhq",
"modified": "2022-05-24T17:45:22Z",
"published": "2022-05-24T17:45:22Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7852"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.krcert.or.kr/krcert/secNoticeView.do?bulletin_writing_sequence=35940"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
GHSA-9F53-H2MQ-RM2M
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-02-10 18:30 – Updated: 2026-02-10 18:30
VLAI
Details
Out-of-bounds write in the firmware for the Intel(R) AMT and Intel(R) Standard Manageability within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. Network adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable denial of service. This result may potentially occur via network access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (low) impacts.
Severity
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-32008"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-02-10T17:16:16Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "Out-of-bounds write in the firmware for the Intel(R) AMT and Intel(R) Standard Manageability within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. Network adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable denial of service. This result may potentially occur via network access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (low) impacts.",
"id": "GHSA-9f53-h2mq-rm2m",
"modified": "2026-02-10T18:30:40Z",
"published": "2026-02-10T18:30:40Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32008"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01315.html"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
]
}
GHSA-9F6F-Q7HJ-P2GF
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-12-20 21:30 – Updated: 2022-12-20 21:30
VLAI
Details
In CanvasContext::draw of CanvasContext.cpp, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-13Android ID: A-229742774
Severity
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2022-20526"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2022-12-16T16:15:00Z",
"severity": "LOW"
},
"details": "In CanvasContext::draw of CanvasContext.cpp, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-13Android ID: A-229742774",
"id": "GHSA-9f6f-q7hj-p2gf",
"modified": "2022-12-20T21:30:19Z",
"published": "2022-12-20T21:30:19Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-20526"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2022-12-01"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
Mitigation MIT-3
Requirements
Strategy: Language Selection
- Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
- For example, many languages that perform their own memory management, such as Java and Perl, are not subject to buffer overflows. Other languages, such as Ada and C#, typically provide overflow protection, but the protection can be disabled by the programmer.
- Be wary that a language's interface to native code may still be subject to overflows, even if the language itself is theoretically safe.
Mitigation MIT-4.1
Architecture and Design
Strategy: Libraries or Frameworks
- Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
- Examples include the Safe C String Library (SafeStr) by Messier and Viega [REF-57], and the Strsafe.h library from Microsoft [REF-56]. These libraries provide safer versions of overflow-prone string-handling functions.
Mitigation MIT-10
Operation
Build and Compilation
Strategy: Environment Hardening
- Use automatic buffer overflow detection mechanisms that are offered by certain compilers or compiler extensions. Examples include: the Microsoft Visual Studio /GS flag, Fedora/Red Hat FORTIFY_SOURCE GCC flag, StackGuard, and ProPolice, which provide various mechanisms including canary-based detection and range/index checking.
- D3-SFCV (Stack Frame Canary Validation) from D3FEND [REF-1334] discusses canary-based detection in detail.
Mitigation MIT-9
Implementation
- Consider adhering to the following rules when allocating and managing an application's memory:
- Double check that the buffer is as large as specified.
- When using functions that accept a number of bytes to copy, such as strncpy(), be aware that if the destination buffer size is equal to the source buffer size, it may not NULL-terminate the string.
- Check buffer boundaries if accessing the buffer in a loop and make sure there is no danger of writing past the allocated space.
- If necessary, truncate all input strings to a reasonable length before passing them to the copy and concatenation functions.
Mitigation MIT-11
Operation
Build and Compilation
Strategy: Environment Hardening
- Run or compile the software using features or extensions that randomly arrange the positions of a program's executable and libraries in memory. Because this makes the addresses unpredictable, it can prevent an attacker from reliably jumping to exploitable code.
- Examples include Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) [REF-58] [REF-60] and Position-Independent Executables (PIE) [REF-64]. Imported modules may be similarly realigned if their default memory addresses conflict with other modules, in a process known as "rebasing" (for Windows) and "prelinking" (for Linux) [REF-1332] using randomly generated addresses. ASLR for libraries cannot be used in conjunction with prelink since it would require relocating the libraries at run-time, defeating the whole purpose of prelinking.
- For more information on these techniques see D3-SAOR (Segment Address Offset Randomization) from D3FEND [REF-1335].
Mitigation MIT-12
Operation
Strategy: Environment Hardening
- Use a CPU and operating system that offers Data Execution Protection (using hardware NX or XD bits) or the equivalent techniques that simulate this feature in software, such as PaX [REF-60] [REF-61]. These techniques ensure that any instruction executed is exclusively at a memory address that is part of the code segment.
- For more information on these techniques see D3-PSEP (Process Segment Execution Prevention) from D3FEND [REF-1336].
Mitigation MIT-13
Implementation
Replace unbounded copy functions with analogous functions that support length arguments, such as strcpy with strncpy. Create these if they are not available.
No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.