Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-125
The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
We track 2,559 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 7.9. 19 have been exploited in real attacks.
How this weakness is prevented
- Architecture and Design: Use a language that provides appropriate memory abstractions.
Latest Out-of-bounds Read vulnerabilities
- 7.5 High severity
Multiple flaws have been identified in `named` related to the handling of DNS messages whose…
Multiple flaws have been identified in `named` related to the handling of DNS messages whose CLASS is not Internet (`IN`) — for example, `CHAOS` or `HESIOD`, or DNS messages that specify meta-classes (`ANY` or `NONE`) in the question section. Specially crafted
- 9.8 Critical severity
Triton Inference Server: Out-of-bounds Read
NVIDIA Triton Inference Server contains a vulnerability in the DALI backend where an attacker could cause an out-of-bounds read. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, data tampering, denial of service, or information disclosu
- 8.1 High severity
rsync: Out-of-bounds Read
Rsync version 3.4.2 and prior contain an integer overflow vulnerability in the compressed-token decoder where a 32-bit signed counter is not checked for overflow, allowing a malicious sender to trigger an overflow that causes the receiver process to read and r
- 7.1 High severity
libheif: Out-of-bounds Read
libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. Versions 1.21.2 and prior contain a heap buffer over-read in HeifPixelImage::overlay() in libheif/pixelimage.cc. When compositing an overlay image (iovl) whose child image has a different bit depth fo
- 9.8 Critical severity
kitty: Out-of-bounds Read
Kitty is a cross-platform GPU based terminal. In versions 0.46.2 and below, the handle_compose_command() function in kitty/graphics.c performs bounds validation on composition offsets using unsigned 32-bit arithmetic that is subject to integer wrapping, potent
- 9.1 Critical severity
coreMQTT: Out-of-bounds Read
Missing bounds validation in the MQTT v5.0 property parser in coreMQTT before 5.0.1 allows an MQTT broker to cause a denial of service by sending a crafted packet. To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to v5.0.1.
- 8.8 High severity
OpenImageIO: Out-of-bounds Read
OpenImageIO is a toolset for reading, writing, and manipulating image files of any image file format relevant to VFX / animation. Prior to 3.0.18.0 and 3.1.13.0, a signed 32-bit integer overflow in the loop index expression i * 4 inside SwapRGBABytes() causes
- 7.8 High severity
Cobalt: Out-of-bounds Read
An Out-of-Bounds Read vulnerability is present in Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt, Xenon, Argon, Lithium, and Cobalt Share versions 12.6.1204.216 and prior that could allow an attacker to disclose information or execute arbitrary code when a specially crafted VC6 file is
- 7.8 High severity
Cobalt: Out-of-bounds Read
An Out-of-Bounds Read vulnerability is present in Ashlar-Vellum Cobalt, Xenon, Argon, Lithium, and Cobalt Share versions 12.6.1204.216 and prior that could allow an attacker to disclose information or execute arbitrary code when a specially crafted VC6 file is
- 7.1 High severity
NanaZip: Out-of-bounds Read
NanaZip is an open source file archive. From 5.0.1252.0 to before 6.0.1698.0, a stack-based out-of-bounds read exists in the ZealFS filesystem image parser in NanaZip. The vulnerability is triggered when opening a crafted ZealFS v1 filesystem image. An attacke
- 8.3 High severity
Intel(R) Data Center Graphics Driver for…: Out-of-bounds Read
Out-of-bounds read for the Intel(R) Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi software before version 2.0.2 within Ring 1: Device Drivers may allow a denial of service. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack ma
- 8.7 High severity
pam_authnft: Out-of-bounds Read
pam_authnft is a PAM session module binding nftables firewall rules to authenticated sessions via cgroupv2 inodes. Prior to 0.2.0-alpha, a heap buffer over-read in peer_lookup_tcp (src/peer_lookup.c:134, prior to the fix) allowed a crafted NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG re
- 7.7 High severity
barebox: Out-of-bounds Read
barebox prior to version 2026.04.0 contains out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities in ext4 extent parsing due to missing validation of the eh_entries field against buffer capacity in fs/ext4/ext4_common.c. Attackers can supply a malicious ext4 filesystem image via
- 7.3 High severity
iOS and iPadOS: Out-of-bounds Read
An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5, macOS Tahoe 26.5, tvOS 26.5, watchOS 26.5. An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or read kernel memory.
- 7.5 High severity
iOS and iPadOS: Out-of-bounds Read
An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5, macOS Sequoia 15.8.2, macOS Tahoe 26.5, tvOS 26.5, visionOS 26.5, watchOS 26.5. An app may be able to cause a denial-of-service.
- 7.5 High severity
dnsmasq: Out-of-bounds Read
A buffer overflow in dnsmasq’s extract_addresses() function allows an attacker to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read and crash by exploiting a malformed DNS response, enabling extract_name() to advance the pointer past the record’s end.
- 7.5 High severity
dnsmasq: Out-of-bounds Read
A heap-based out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the DNSSEC validation of dnsmasq allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted DNS packet.
- 7.5 High severity
XML::LibXML: Out-of-bounds Read
XML::LibXML versions through 2.0210 for Perl read out-of-bounds heap memory when parsing XML node names containing truncated UTF-8 byte sequences. A node name ending in the middle of a multi byte UTF-8 sequence causes the parser to read past the end of the inp
- 9.1 Critical severity
PHP: Out-of-bounds Read
In PHP versions 8.4.* before 8.4.21 and 8.5.* before 8.5.6, when an encoding name containing an embedded NUL byte is passed to mb_convert_encoding() or related mbstring functions, the code incorrectly assumes that when strncasecmp() returns 0 it means the stri
- 7.5 High severity
PHP: Out-of-bounds Read
In PHP versions 8.2.* before 8.2.31, 8.3.* before 8.3.31, 8.4.* before 8.4.21, and 8.5.* before 8.5.6, the metaphone() function in ext/standard/metaphone.c uses a signed int variable to track the current position within the input string. If a string longer tha
- 7.5 High severity
PHP: Out-of-bounds Read
In PHP versions 8.2.* before 8.2.31, 8.3.* before 8.3.31, 8.4.* before 8.4.21, and 8.5.* before 8.5.6, some functions, including urldecode(), pass signed char to ctype functions (like isxdigit()). On the systems with default signed char and optimized table-loo
- 7.5 High severity
Open5GS: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
A vulnerability was detected in Open5GS up to 2.7.7. This affects the function ogs_sbi_client_send_via_scp_or_sepp in the library lib/sbi/client.c of the component NF. Performing a manipulation results in out-of-bounds read. The attack is possible to be carrie
- 7.1 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: fix stack out-of-bounds read in pipapo_drop() pipapo_drop() passes rulemap[i + 1].n to pipapo_unmap() as the to_offset argument on every iteration, including the las
- 8.2 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: x_tables: guard option walkers against 1-byte tail reads When the last byte of options is a non-single-byte option kind, walkers that advance with i += op[i + 1] ? : 1 can read op[i
- 7.1 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nfnetlink_cthelper: fix OOB read in nfnl_cthelper_dump_table() nfnl_cthelper_dump_table() has a 'goto restart' that jumps to a label inside the for loop body. When the "last" helper
- 7.1 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme-pci: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in nvme_dbbuf_set dev->online_queues is a count incremented in nvme_init_queue. Thus, valid indices are 0 through dev->online_queues − 1. This patch fixes the
- 7.1 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: class: cdc-wdm: fix reordering issue in read code path Quoting the bug report: Due to compiler optimization or CPU out-of-order execution, the desc->length update can be reordered before
- 9.1 Critical severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in ceph_handle_auth_reply() This patch fixes an out-of-bounds access in ceph_handle_auth_reply() that can be triggered by a message of type CEPH_MSG
- 9.1 Critical severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: libceph: prevent potential out-of-bounds reads in process_message_header() If the message frame is (maliciously) corrupted in a way that the length of the control segment ends up being less th
- 7.1 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: rtl8723bs: fix potential out-of-bounds read in rtw_restruct_wmm_ie The current code checks 'i + 5 < in_len' at the end of the if statement. However, it accesses 'in_ie[i + 5]' before
- 7.1 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (pmbus/q54sj108a2) fix stack overflow in debugfs read The q54sj108a2_debugfs_read function suffers from a stack buffer overflow due to incorrect arguments passed to bin2hex(). The funct
- 7.6 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: require a full NFS mode SID before reading mode bits parse_dacl() treats an ACE SID matching sid_unix_NFS_mode as an NFS mode SID and reads sid.sub_auth[2] to recover the mode bit
- 7.5 High severity
Firefox: Out-of-bounds Read
Memory safety bugs present in Thunderbird ESR 140.10.1 and Thunderbird 150.0.1. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort some of these could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability was
- 9.1 Critical severity
openexr: Out-of-bounds Read
OpenEXR provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, an image storage format for the motion picture industry. From versions 3.0.0 to before 3.2.9, 3.3.0 to before 3.3.11, and 3.4.0 to before 3.4.11, IDManifest::init() reconst
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Out-of-bounds Read
Out of bounds read in AdFilter in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 8.1 High severity
Chrome: Out-of-bounds Read
Out of bounds read in Codecs in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Out-of-bounds Write
Out of bounds memory access in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Out-of-bounds Read
Out of bounds read and write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 148.0.7778.96 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 7.1 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mailbox: Prevent out-of-bounds access in fw_mbox_index_xlate() Although it is guided that `#mbox-cells` must be at least 1, there are many instances of `#mbox-cells = <0>;` in the device tree.
- 7.1 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Read
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Add bounds check on pat_index to prevent OOB kernel read in madvise When user provides a bogus pat_index value through the madvise IOCTL, the xe_pat_index_get_coh_mode() function perfo