Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-787
The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
We track 5,885 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 8.3. 167 have been exploited in real attacks.
How this weakness is prevented
- Requirements: 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.
- Architecture and Design: 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, and the Strsafe.h library from Microsoft. These libraries provide safer versions of overflow-prone string-handling functions.
- Operation Build and Compilation: 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 discusses canary-based detection in detail.
- Operation: 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. 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.
- Implementation: Replace unbounded copy functions with analogous functions that support length arguments, such as strcpy with strncpy. Create these if they are not available.
Latest Out-of-bounds Write vulnerabilities
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Write
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: dwc: ep: Flush MSI-X write before unmapping its ATU entry Endpoint drivers use dw_pcie_ep_raise_msix_irq() to raise an MSI-X interrupt to the host using a writel(), which generates a PCI
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Write
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix stack-out-of-bounds write in devmap get_upper_ifindexes() iterates over all upper devices and writes their indices into an array without checking bounds. Also the callers assume that
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Write
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xdp: produce a warning when calculated tailroom is negative Many ethernet drivers report xdp Rx queue frag size as being the same as DMA write size. However, the only user of this field, namel
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Write
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xsk: Fix fragment node deletion to prevent buffer leak After commit b692bf9a7543 ("xsk: Get rid of xdp_buff_xsk::xskb_list_node"), the list_node field is reused for both the xskb pool list and
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Write
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (macsmc) Fix regressions in Apple Silicon SMC hwmon driver The recently added macsmc-hwmon driver contained several critical bugs in its sensor population logic and float conversion rou
- 8.8 High severity
Safari: Out-of-bounds Read
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.4, iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4, macOS Tahoe 26.4, tvOS 26.4, visionOS 26.4, watchOS 26.4. A malicious website may be able to process restricted web content outside the sandbox
- 8.8 High severity
Safari: Out-of-bounds Read
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.4, iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4, macOS Tahoe 26.4, visionOS 26.4. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.
- 7.1 High severity
macOS: Out-of-bounds Write
An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in macOS Sequoia 15.7.5, macOS Sonoma 14.8.5, macOS Tahoe 26.4. An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system.
- 7.8 High severity
iOS and iPadOS: Out-of-bounds Write
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4, macOS Tahoe 26.4, tvOS 26.4, visionOS 26.4, watchOS 26.4. An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory.
- 8.8 High severity
Safari: Out-of-bounds Write
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in Safari 26.4, iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4, macOS Tahoe 26.4, visionOS 26.4. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.
- 7.5 High severity
Firefox: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Incorrect boundary conditions in the Layout: Text and Fonts component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 149, Firefox ESR 115.34, Firefox ESR 140.9, Thunderbird 149, and Thunderbird 140.9.
- 7.5 High severity
Firefox: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Incorrect boundary conditions in the Audio/Video: Web Codecs component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 149, Firefox ESR 140.9, Thunderbird 149, and Thunderbird 140.9.
- 7.5 High severity
Firefox: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics: Canvas2D component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 149, Firefox ESR 115.34, Firefox ESR 140.9, Thunderbird 149, and Thunderbird 140.9.
- 7.5 High severity
Firefox: Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Incorrect boundary conditions in the Graphics: Canvas2D component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 149, Firefox ESR 115.34, Firefox ESR 140.9, Thunderbird 149, and Thunderbird 140.9.
- 10.0 Critical severity
proton: Out-of-bounds Write
Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in timeplus-io proton (base/poco/Foundation/src modules). This vulnerability is associated with program files inflate.C. This issue affects proton: before 1.6.16.
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Out-of-bounds Write
Heap buffer overflow in WebGL in Google Chrome prior to 146.0.7680.165 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Out-of-bounds Write
Heap buffer overflow in WebAudio in Google Chrome prior to 146.0.7680.165 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 8.8 High severity
DIR-513: Out-of-bounds Write
A weakness has been identified in D-Link DIR-513 1.10. The impacted element is the function formEasySetTimezone of the file /goform/formEasySetTimezone of the component boa. This manipulation of the argument curTime causes stack-based buffer overflow. The atta
- 9.6 Critical severity
Graphics DDK: Out-of-bounds Write
A web page that contains unusual GPU shader code is loaded into the GPU compiler process and can trigger a write out-of-bounds write crash in the GPU shader compiler library. On certain platforms, when the compiler process has system privileges this could enab
- 7.8 High severity
gpac: Out-of-bounds Write
GPAC is an open-source multimedia framework. Prior to commit 86b0e36, a heap-based buffer overflow (write) vulnerability was discovered in GPAC MP4Box. The vulnerability exists in the gf_xml_parse_bit_sequence_bs function in utils/xml_bin_custom.c when process
- 8.8 High severity
DIR-513: Out-of-bounds Write
A vulnerability was found in D-Link DIR-513 1.10. This affects the function formEasySetPassword of the file /goform/formEasySetPassword of the component Web Service. The manipulation of the argument curTime results in stack-based buffer overflow. The attack ma
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Out-of-bounds Read
Out of bounds read and write in WebAudio in Google Chrome prior to 146.0.7680.153 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Out-of-bounds Write
Out of bounds write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 146.0.7680.153 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption 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 WebGL in Google Chrome prior to 146.0.7680.153 allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Out-of-bounds Read
Out of bounds memory access in WebGL in Google Chrome on Android prior to 146.0.7680.153 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical)
- 7.5 High severity
ultrajson: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
UltraJSON is a fast JSON encoder and decoder written in pure C with bindings for Python 3.7+. Versions 5.10 through 5.11.0 are vulnerable to buffer overflow or infinite loop through large indent handling. ujson.dumps() crashes the Python interpreter (segmentat
- 9.8 Critical severity
wolfSSL: Out-of-bounds Write
Stack Buffer Overflow in wc_HpkeLabeledExtract via Oversized ECH Config. A vulnerability existed in wolfSSL 5.8.4 ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) support, where a maliciously crafted ECH config could cause a stack buffer overflow on the client side, leading to po
- 9.8 Critical severity
wolfSSL: Out-of-bounds Write
Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities existed in the wolfSSL CRL parser when parsing CRL numbers: a heap-based buffer overflow could occur when improperly storing the CRL number as a hexadecimal string, and a stack-based overflow for sufficiently sized CRL numbe
- 8.1 High severity
wolfssl: Out-of-bounds Write
A heap-buffer-overflow vulnerability exists in wolfSSL's wolfSSL_d2i_SSL_SESSION() function. When deserializing session data with SESSION_CERTS enabled, certificate and session id lengths are read from an untrusted input without bounds validation, allowing an
- 7.1 High severity
wolfSSL: Out-of-bounds Write
A stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in wolfSSL's PKCS7 SignedData encoding functionality. In wc_PKCS7_BuildSignedAttributes(), when adding custom signed attributes, the code passes an incorrect capacity value (esd->signedAttribsCount) to EncodeAttribu
- 7.5 High severity
ImageMagick: Out-of-bounds Write
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to 7.1.2-17 and 6.9.13-42, the NewXMLTree method contains a bug that could result in a crash due to an out of write bounds of a single zero byte. Versions 7.1.
- 8.1 High severity
htslib: Stack-based Buffer Overflow
HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data using a variety of encodings and compression methods. When reading data encoded using the `BYTE_ARRAY_LEN` method, the
- 8.1 High severity
htslib: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. GZI files are used to index block-compressed GZIP [BGZF] files. In the GZI loading function, `bgzf_index_load_hfile()`, it was possible to trigger an integer overflow, leading to an under
- 8.1 High severity
htslib: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data using a variety of encodings and compression methods. When reading data encoded using the `BYTE_ARRAY_STOP` method, an
- 8.1 High severity
htslib: Stack-based Buffer Overflow
HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data using a variety of encodings and compression methods. For the `VARINT` and `CONST` encodings, incomplete validation of
- 8.1 High severity
htslib: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data. As one method of removing redundant data, CRAM uses reference-based compression so that instead of storing the full s
- 8.8 High severity
htslib: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
HTSlib is a library for reading and writing bioinformatics file formats. CRAM is a compressed format which stores DNA sequence alignment data. While most alignment records store DNA sequence and quality values, the format also allows them to omit this data in
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Out-of-bounds Write
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in giflib v.5.2.2 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the EGifGCBToExtension overwriting an existing Graphic Control Extension block without validating its allocated size.
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Write
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gve: Fix stats report corruption on queue count change The driver and the NIC share a region in memory for stats reporting. The NIC calculates its offset into this region based on the total si
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Out-of-bounds Write
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/umad: Reject negative data_len in ib_umad_write ib_umad_write computes data_len from user-controlled count and the MAD header sizes. With a mismatched user MAD header size and RMPP header