cve.bz

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer, page 145

Filter

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.

What the weakness is: CWE-119 at MITRE

Related attack patterns (CAPEC): 12
  • CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call Likelihood: High · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities Likelihood: High · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables Likelihood: High · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow Likelihood: Medium · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow Likelihood: High · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion Likelihood: High · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-44 Overflow Binary Resource File Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High
  • CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links Likelihood: High · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags Likelihood: High · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion Likelihood: Medium · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-100 Overflow Buffers Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High
  • CAPEC-123 Buffer Manipulation Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High

The attack patterns MITRE's CAPEC relates to CWE-119, as MITRE names them. Credits.

Ask an AI about CWE-119

ChatGPTClaudeGoogle AI Mode

Show the promptExplain CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer and how to prevent and detect it in code. Use https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html and https://cve.bz/cve/cwe/119?via=ask-ai-copy for recent CVEs with this weakness. Cite the sources.

Opens a third-party assistant; its answer is its own, not cve.bz's. The prompt holds only this weakness's id and public links.

  1. 7.8CVE-2016-7622EPSS 1.8%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Grapher" component. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and appli…

  2. 7.8CVE-2016-7618EPSS 1.8%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Foundation" component. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and ap…

  3. 7.8CVE-2016-7616EPSS 1.4%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. watchOS before 3.1.3 is affected. The issue involves the "Disk Images" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary co…

  4. 7.8CVE-2016-7612ExploitEPSS 4.2%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. watchOS before 3.1.3 is affected. The issue involves the "Kernel" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in…

  5. 8.8CVE-2016-7611EPSS 2.0%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. Safari before 10.0.2 is affected. iCloud before 6.1 is affected. iTunes before 12.5.4 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote …

  6. 8.8CVE-2016-7610EPSS 1.8%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. Safari before 10.0.2 is affected. iCloud before 6.1 is affected. iTunes before 12.5.4 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote …

  7. 7.8CVE-2016-7606EPSS 1.4%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. watchOS before 3.1.3 is affected. The issue involves the "Kernel" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in…

  8. 7.8CVE-2016-7602EPSS 1.4%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Intel Graphics Driver" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of servi…

  9. 8.8CVE-2016-7596EPSS 2.2%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Bluetooth" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service (memory c…

  10. 8.8CVE-2016-7595EPSS 2.4%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. watchOS before 3.1.3 is affected. The issue involves the "CoreText" component. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrar…

  11. 8.8CVE-2016-7594EPSS 1.8%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. watchOS before 3.1.3 is affected. The issue involves the "ICU" component. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary cod…

  12. 8.8CVE-2016-7589EPSS 1.9%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. Safari before 10.0.2 is affected. iCloud before 6.1 is affected. iTunes before 12.5.4 is affected. watchOS before 3.1.3 is affected. The issue involves the "We…

  13. 8.8CVE-2016-7588EPSS 2.4%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. watchOS before 3.1.3 is affected. The issue involves the "CoreMedia Playback" component. It allows remote attackers to execut…

  14. 8.8CVE-2016-7587EPSS 1.8%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. Safari before 10.0.2 is affected. iCloud before 6.1 is affected. iTunes before 12.5.4 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote …

  15. 8.8CVE-2016-7578EPSS 1.5%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.1 is affected. Safari before 10.0.1 is affected. iCloud before 6.0.1 is affected. iTunes before 12.5.2 is affected. tvOS before 10.0.1 is affected. The issue involves the "We…

  16. 8.8CVE-2016-4764EPSS 1.6%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10 is affected. Safari before 10 is affected. iTunes before 12.5.1 is affected. tvOS before 10 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote attackers…

  17. 7.1CVE-2016-4743EPSS 1.0%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. Safari before 10.0.2 is affected. iCloud before 6.1 is affected. iTunes before 12.5.4 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote …

  18. 8.8CVE-2016-4692EPSS 1.8%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. Safari before 10.0.2 is affected. iCloud before 6.1 is affected. iTunes before 12.5.4 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote …

  19. 8.8CVE-2016-4691EPSS 2.4%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.2 is affected. macOS before 10.12.2 is affected. watchOS before 3.1.3 is affected. The issue involves the "FontParser" component. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitr…

  20. 8.8CVE-2016-4688EPSS 2.9%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.1 is affected. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. tvOS before 10.0.1 is affected. watchOS before 3.1 is affected. watchOS before 3.1.3 is affected. The issue involves the "Fon…

  21. 7.8CVE-2016-4683EPSS 1.4%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. The issue involves the "ImageIO" component. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access…

  22. 7.8CVE-2016-4681EPSS 1.4%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. The issue involves the "Core Image" component. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and ap…

  23. 8.8CVE-2016-4677EPSS 1.8%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.1 is affected. Safari before 10.0.1 is affected. tvOS before 10.0.1 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary co…

  24. 7.8CVE-2016-4674EPSS 0.3%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. The issue involves the "ATS" component. It allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) vi…

  25. 7.8CVE-2016-4673EPSS 1.8%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.1 is affected. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. tvOS before 10.0.1 is affected. watchOS before 3.1 is affected. The issue involves the "CoreGraphics" component. It allows re…

  26. 8.8CVE-2016-4667EPSS 2.4%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. The issue involves the "ATS" component. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and applicati…

  27. 8.8CVE-2016-4666EPSS 1.8%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.1 is affected. Safari before 10.0.1 is affected. tvOS before 10.0.1 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary co…

  28. 5.5CVE-2016-4663EPSS 0.8%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. The issue involves the "NVIDIA Graphics Drivers" component. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted app.

  29. 7.8CVE-2016-4662EPSS 1.3%

    An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. macOS before 10.12.1 is affected. The issue involves the "AppleGraphicsControl" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of servic…

  30. 5.5CVE-2017-5025EPSS 1.3%

    FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

  31. 5.5CVE-2017-5024EPSS 1.3%

    FFmpeg in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted video file.

  32. 6.3CVE-2017-5014EPSS 1.4%

    Heap buffer overflow during image processing in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page.

  33. 8.8CVE-2017-5012EPSS 2.0%

    A heap buffer overflow in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

  34. 8.8CVE-2017-5009EPSS 1.4%

    WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, failed to perform proper bounds checking, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML pag…

  35. 7.8CVE-2016-9831EPSS 2.1%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the parseSWF_RGBA function in parser.c in the listswf tool in libming 0.4.7 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted SWF file.

  36. 7.8CVE-2016-9829EPSS 2.1%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the parseSWF_DEFINEFONT function in parser.c in the listswf tool in libming 0.4.7 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted SWF file.

  37. 5.5CVE-2016-9827EPSS 1.8%

    The _iprintf function in outputtxt.c in the listswf tool in libming 0.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) via a crafted SWF file.

  38. 5.5CVE-2016-9773EPSS 1.8%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the IsPixelGray function in MagickCore/pixel-accessor.h in ImageMagick 7.0.3.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read) via a crafted image file. NOTE: this vulnerability…

  39. 5.5CVE-2017-6010EPSS 1.5%

    An issue was discovered in icoutils 0.31.1. A buffer overflow was observed in the "extract_icons" function in the "extract.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted ico file and will result in an icotool crash.

  40. 5.5CVE-2017-6009EPSS 1.5%

    An issue was discovered in icoutils 0.31.1. A buffer overflow was observed in the "decode_ne_resource_id" function in the "restable.c" source file. This is happening because the "len" parameter for memcpy is not checked for size and thus b…

  41. 7.8CVE-2017-0324EPSS 0.3%

    All versions of NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contain a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where the size of an input buffer is not validated, leading to denial of service or potential escal…

  42. 7.8CVE-2017-0314EPSS 0.3%

    All versions of NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contain a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) implementation of the SubmitCommandVirtual DDI (DxgkDdiSubmitCommandVirtual) where untrusted input is used to reference memor…

  43. 7.8CVE-2017-0313ExploitEPSS 1.6%

    All versions of NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contain a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) implementation of the SubmitCommandVirtual DDI (DxgkDdiSubmitCommandVirtual) where untrusted input is used to reference memor…

  44. 8.8CVE-2017-0308EPSS 0.3%

    All versions of NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contain a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where untrusted input is used for buffer size calculation leading to denial of service or escalatio…

  45. 8.8CVE-2016-8866EPSS 4.8%

    The AcquireMagickMemory function in MagickCore/memory.c in ImageMagick 7.0.3.3 before 7.0.3.8 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, which triggers a memory allocation failure. NOTE: this vulnerability exi…

  46. 8.8CVE-2016-8862EPSS 4.2%

    The AcquireMagickMemory function in MagickCore/memory.c in ImageMagick before 7.0.3.3 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

  47. 7.5CVE-2016-8687EPSS 5.3%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the safe_fprintf function in tar/util.c in libarchive 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted non-printable multibyte character in a filename.

  48. 7.8CVE-2016-8684EPSS 2.2%

    The MagickMalloc function in magick/memory.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, which triggers a memory allocation failure and a "file truncation error for corrupt file."

  49. 7.8CVE-2016-8683EPSS 1.8%

    The ReadPCXImage function in coders/pcx.c in GraphicsMagick 1.3.25 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, which triggers a memory allocation failure and a "file truncation error for corrupt file."

  50. 5.5CVE-2016-6832EPSS 1.6%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the ff_audio_resample function in resample.c in libav before 11.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to buffer resizing.