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CWE-126: Buffer Over-read

Variant

The product reads from a buffer using buffer access mechanisms such as indexes or pointers that reference memory locations after the targeted buffer.

Consequences

  • Confidentiality: Read Memory
  • Confidentiality: Bypass Protection Mechanism
  • Availability, Integrity: DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart

Recent advisories

  • GHSA-c6hw-5grf-ff96 — Pillow: OOB read in TiffDecode.c tile and RGBA paths leaks heap memory into pixels
  • GHSA-4558-3h8r-v8xp — Pillow: P;2L and P;4L decoders may read 1 to 3 bytes past the passed buffer size
  • GHSA-hppc-g8h3-xhp3 — rust-openssl: Unchecked callback length in PSK/cookie trampolines leaks adjacent memory to peer
  • GHSA-r99p-5442-q2x2 — ImageMagick has a heap Buffer Over-read in its DJVU image format handler
  • GHSA-qpgx-jfcq-r59f — ImageMagick: Heap Buffer Over-read in WaveletDenoise when processing small images
  • GHSA-gjf6-3w4p-7xfh — Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-21176 | .NET and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  • GHSA-xcf7-rvmh-g6q4 — `openssl` `X509VerifyParamRef::set_host` buffer over-read
  • GHSA-jpqr-vh55-xqxf — Apache Tomcat Buffer Over-Read

All advisories for CWE-126

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