About “Out-of-Bounds Read”

A curated feed of “Out-of-Bounds Read”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 5853 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 975 were published. Average CVSS is 6.5 (all time; 6.4 over 365d), and 43% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read, CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer, CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow.

In our taxonomy this topic maps to a MODERATE impact class. Common exploitation patterns for this weakness can lead to moderate. Use the filters to triage high risk first and validate exposure in your environment. Use the filters below to sort by CVSS, risk and CWE. Each detail page highlights vendor advisories and mitigation tips.

CVEs tagged with this topic. Filters apply to the whole list (loaded from JSON).

CVSS ≥ 0.0
2011-11-04
Medium

CVE-2011-3594

The g_markup_escape_text function in the SILC protocol plug-in in libpurple 2.10.0 and earlier, as used in Pidgin and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (cr…

2011-10-21
Medium

CVE-2011-2713

oowriter in OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 and LibreOffice before 3.4.3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted DOC file that triggers an out-of-bounds read in…

2011-09-19
Medium

CVE-2011-3234

Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly handle boxes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

Medium

CVE-2011-2864

Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly handle Tibetan characters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

Medium

CVE-2011-2858

Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly handle triangle arrays, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

Medium

CVE-2011-2851

Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly handle video, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

Medium

CVE-2011-2850

Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly handle Khmer characters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

Medium

CVE-2011-2844

Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly process MP3 files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

Medium

CVE-2011-2843

Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly handle media buffers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

2011-09-16
Medium

CVE-2011-3489

RnaUtility.dll in RsvcHost.exe 2.30.0.23 in Rockwell RSLogix 19 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted rna packet with a long string to TCP port 4446 t…

Medium

CVE-2011-3486

Beckhoff TwinCAT 2.11.0.2004 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted request to UDP port 48899, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

2011-09-15
Critical

CVE-2011-3322

Core Server HMI Service (Coreservice.exe) in Scadatec Limited Procyon SCADA 1.06, and other versions before 1.14, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arb…

2011-08-12
Medium

CVE-2011-1583

Multiple integer overflows in tools/libxc/xc_dom_bzimageloader.c in Xen 3.2, 3.3, 4.0, and 4.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted paravir…

2011-08-03
Medium

CVE-2011-2803

Google Chrome before 13.0.782.107 does not properly handle Skia paths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

Medium

CVE-2011-2794

Google Chrome before 13.0.782.107 does not properly perform text iteration, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

2011-07-17
Medium

CVE-2011-2501

The png_format_buffer function in pngerror.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (appli…

2011-06-29
Medium

CVE-2011-2345

The NPAPI implementation in Google Chrome before 12.0.742.112 does not properly handle strings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

2011-06-24
High

CVE-2011-0196

AirPort in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and reboot) via Wi-Fi frames on the local wireless network.

2011-05-10
Low

CVE-2011-0905

The rfbSendFramebufferUpdate function in server/libvncserver/rfbserver.c in vino-server in Vino 2.x before 2.28.3, 2.32.x before 2.32.2, 3.0.x before 3.0.2, and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, when tight encodin…

2011-05-03
Medium

CVE-2011-1455

Google Chrome before 11.0.696.57 does not properly handle PDF documents with multipart encoding, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted document.

Medium

CVE-2011-1445

Google Chrome before 11.0.696.57 does not properly handle SVG documents, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

2011-03-11
Medium

CVE-2011-1192

Google Chrome before 10.0.648.127 on Linux does not properly handle Unicode ranges, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

2011-03-01
Medium

CVE-2011-1122

The WebGL implementation in Google Chrome before 9.0.597.107 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors, aka Issue 71960.

Medium

CVE-2011-1120

The WebGL implementation in Google Chrome before 9.0.597.107 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors, aka Issue 71717.

Medium

CVE-2011-1113

Google Chrome before 9.0.597.107 on 64-bit Linux platforms does not properly perform pickle deserialization, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspec…

2011-02-10
Medium

CVE-2011-0984

Google Chrome before 9.0.597.94 does not properly handle plug-ins, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.

2010-12-22
High

CVE-2010-4577

The CSSParser::parseFontFaceSrc function in WebCore/css/CSSParser.cpp in WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.224, Chrome OS before 8.0.552.343, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products…

2010-12-07
Medium

CVE-2010-4489

libvpx, as used in Google Chrome before 8.0.552.215 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted WebM video. NOTE: this vulner…

2010-09-22
High

CVE-2010-3301

The IA32 system call emulation functionality in arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4-git2 on the x86_64 platform does not zero extend the %eax register after the 32-bit ent…

2010-07-06
Medium

CVE-2010-2645

Unspecified vulnerability in Google Chrome before 5.0.375.99, when WebGL is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unknown vectors.

Medium

CVE-2010-2483

The TIFFRGBAImageGet function in LibTIFF 3.9.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a TIFF file with an invalid combination of SamplesPe…

Medium

CVE-2010-2481

The TIFFExtractData macro in LibTIFF before 3.9.4 does not properly handle unknown tag types in TIFF directory entries, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read…

2010-06-17
Medium

CVE-2010-1642

The reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego function in sesssetup.c in smbd in Samba before 3.4.8 and 3.5.x before 3.5.2 allows remote attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds read, and cause a denial of service (…

2010-05-26
Medium

CVE-2010-1640

Off-by-one error in the parseicon function in libclamav/pe_icons.c in ClamAV 0.96 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PE icon that triggers an out-of-bounds rea…

2010-05-20
Medium

CVE-2010-1987

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption, out-of-bounds read, and application crash) via JavaScript code that appends long stri…

2010-02-10
Medium

CVE-2009-4640

Array index error in vorbis_dec.c in FFmpeg 0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Vorbis file that triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Medium

CVE-2009-4632

oggparsevorbis.c in FFmpeg 0.5 does not properly perform certain pointer arithmetic, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory contents and cause a denial of service via a crafted…

Critical

CVE-2009-4631

Off-by-one error in the VP3 decoder (vp3.c) in FFmpeg 0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VP3 file that triggers an out-of-bound…

2009-08-18
High

CVE-2009-2846

The eisa_eeprom_read function in the parisc isa-eeprom component (drivers/parisc/eisa_eeprom.c) in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc6 allows local users to access restricted memory via a negative ppo…

2009-06-23
Critical

CVE-2009-0690

The Foxit JPEG2000/JBIG2 Decoder add-on before 2.0.2009.616 for Foxit Reader 3.0 before Build 1817 does not properly handle a negative value for the stream offset in a JPEG2000 (aka JPX) stream, whic…

2009-04-23
Medium

CVE-2009-0799

The JBIG2 decoder in Xpdf 3.02pl2 and earlier, CUPS 1.3.9 and earlier, Poppler before 0.10.6, and other products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PDF file th…

2009-03-25
Medium

CVE-2009-0787

The ecryptfs_write_metadata_to_contents function in the eCryptfs functionality in the Linux kernel 2.6.28 before 2.6.28.9 uses an incorrect size when writing kernel memory to an eCryptfs file header,…

2009-03-19
Medium

CVE-2009-0661

Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (WeeChat) 0.2.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IRC PRIVMSG command containing crafted color codes that trigger an out-of-bounds…

2008-11-26
Medium

CVE-2008-5239

xine-lib 1.1.12, and other 1.1.15 and earlier versions, does not properly handle (a) negative and (b) zero values during unspecified read function calls in input_file.c, input_net.c, input_smb.c, and…

2008-10-31
Medium

CVE-2008-4799

pamperspective in Netpbm before 10.35.48 does not properly calculate a window height, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted image file that trigg…

2008-09-16
Medium

CVE-2008-3950

Off-by-one error in the _web_drawInRect:withFont:ellipsis:alignment:measureOnly function in WebKit in Safari in Apple iPhone 1.1.4 and 2.0 and iPod touch 1.1.4 and 2.0 allows remote attackers to caus…

2008-09-11
Medium

CVE-2008-3629

Apple QuickTime before 7.5.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted PICT image that triggers an out-of-bounds read.

2008-07-21
Medium

CVE-2008-3244

The scanning engine before 4.4.4 in F-Prot Antivirus before 6.0.9.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (engine crash) via a CHM file with a large nb_dir value that triggers an out-o…

2008-07-14
Critical

CVE-2008-2303

Integer signedness error in Safari on Apple iPhone before 2.0 and iPod touch before 2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors…

2008-07-01
High

CVE-2008-2954

client/NmdcHub.cpp in Linux DC++ (linuxdcpp) before 0.707 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an empty private message, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

2008-06-16
Medium

CVE-2008-2713

libclamav/petite.c in ClamAV before 0.93.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted Petite file that triggers an out-of-bounds read.

2008-06-02
High

CVE-2008-1573

The BMP and GIF image decoding engine in ImageIO in Apple Mac OS X before 10.5.3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (memory contents) via a crafted (1) BMP or (2) GIF image, whic…

2008-04-28
Medium

CVE-2008-2001

Apple Safari 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a file:///%E2 link that triggers an out-of-bounds access, possibly due to a NULL pointer dereference.

2008-03-10
Medium

CVE-2008-1279

Acronis True Image Group Server 1.5.19.191 and earlier, included in Acronis True Image Enterprise Server 9.5.0.8072 and the other True Image packages, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of ser…

2008-02-26
Medium

CVE-2008-0983

lighttpd 1.4.18, and possibly other versions before 1.5.0, does not properly calculate the size of a file descriptor array, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a la…

2008-02-13
Medium

CVE-2008-0767

ExtremeZ-IP.exe in ExtremeZ-IP File and Print Server 5.1.2x15 and earlier does not verify that a certain "number of URLs" field is consistent with the packet length, which allows remote attackers to…

2008-02-12
Critical

CVE-2008-0420

modules/libpr0n/decoders/bmp/nsBMPDecoder.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 2.0.0.12, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.12, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.8 does not properly perform certain calculations related to the…

2008-01-08
High

CVE-2007-0066

The kernel in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, and Server 2003, when ICMP Router Discovery Protocol (RDP) is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via fragmented router adv…

2007-10-08
Medium

CVE-2007-5269

Certain chunk handlers in libpng before 1.0.29 and 1.2.x before 1.2.21 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted (1) pCAL (png_handle_pCAL), (2) sCAL (png_handle_sCAL),…

2007-09-24
High

CVE-2007-4573

The IA32 system call emulation functionality in Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x before 2.6.22.7, when running on the x86_64 architecture, does not zero extend the eax register after the 32bit entry path…

2007-09-04
High

CVE-2007-4657

Multiple integer overflows in PHP 4 before 4.4.8, and PHP 5 before 5.2.4, allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (memory contents) or cause a denial of service (thread crash) via a la…

2007-08-31
Medium

CVE-2007-4638

Blizzard Entertainment StarCraft Brood War 1.15.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed map, which triggers an out-of-bounds read during…

2007-07-26
Medium

CVE-2007-4029

libvorbis 1.1.2, and possibly other versions before 1.2.0, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) an invalid mapping type, which triggers an out-of-bounds read in the…

2007-04-12
Medium

CVE-2007-1995

bgpd/bgp_attr.c in Quagga 0.98.6 and earlier, and 0.99.6 and earlier 0.99 versions, does not validate length values in the MP_REACH_NLRI and MP_UNREACH_NLRI attributes, which allows remote attackers…

2007-02-15
High

CVE-2007-0955

The NTLM_UnPack_Type3 function in MENTLM.dll in MailEnable Professional 2.35 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain base64-encoded data follo…

2007-02-03
High

CVE-2007-0673

LGSERVER.EXE in BrightStor ARCserve Backup for Laptops & Desktops r11.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a value of 0xFFFFFFFF at a certain point in an authenti…

2006-11-17
Low

CVE-2006-5793

The sPLT chunk handling code (png_set_sPLT function in pngset.c) in libpng 1.0.6 through 1.2.12 uses a sizeof operator on the wrong data type, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a deni…

2006-08-31
Critical

CVE-2006-4485

The stripos function in PHP before 5.1.5 has unknown impact and attack vectors related to an out-of-bounds read.

2006-05-01
Low

CVE-2006-2120

The TIFFToRGB function in libtiff before 3.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted TIFF image with Yr/Yg/Yb values that exceed the YCR/YCG/YCB values, which tri…

2006-04-05
Medium

CVE-2006-1055

The fill_write_buffer function in sysfs/file.c in Linux kernel 2.6.12 up to versions before 2.6.17-rc1 does not zero terminate a buffer when a length of PAGE_SIZE or more is requested, which might al…

2006-03-09
Medium

CVE-2006-1101

The (1) sgetstr and (2) getint functions in Sauerbraten 2006_02_28, as derived from the Cube engine, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via long streams of input…

2006-02-10
High

CVE-2006-0645

Tiny ASN.1 Library (libtasn1) before 0.2.18, as used by (1) GnuTLS 1.2.x before 1.2.10 and 1.3.x before 1.3.4, and (2) GNU Shishi, allows attackers to crash the DER decoder and possibly execute arbit…

2006-02-02
Medium

CVE-2006-0298

The XML parser in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.1 and SeaMonkey before 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly read sensitive data via unknown attack vectors that…

2005-12-31
Medium

CVE-2005-3187

The listening daemon in Blue Coat Systems Inc. WinProxy before 6.1a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long HTTP request that causes an out-of-bounds read.

2005-10-12
Medium

CVE-2005-3183

The HTBoundary_put_block function in HTBound.c for W3C libwww (w3c-libwww) allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted multipart/byteranges MIME message that…

2005-09-27
Medium

CVE-2005-3065

MultiTheftAuto 0.5 patch 1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted command 40 that causes a -1 length to be used and triggers an out-of-boun…

2005-05-17
Medium

CVE-2005-1643

The ZCom_BitStream::Deserialize function in Zoidcom 1.0 beta 4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted UDP packet with a large size value, which causes a memory…

2005-05-02
Medium

CVE-2005-0965

The gaim_markup_strip_html function in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string that contains malformed HTML, w…

Medium

CVE-2005-0967

Gaim 1.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed file transfer request to a Jabber user, which leads to an out-of-bounds read.

2005-01-10
Critical

CVE-2004-1137

Multiple vulnerabilities in the IGMP functionality for Linux kernel 2.4.22 to 2.4.28, and 2.6.x to 2.6.9, allow local and remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via (…

2004-12-31
Medium

CVE-2004-1831

Buffer overflow in Chrome 1.2.0.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a packet with a large length value, which leads to a null dereference or out-of-bounds r…

Medium

CVE-2004-1897

Administration interface in Monit 1.4 through 4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) by sending a Basic Authentication request without a password, which causes…

Medium

CVE-2004-1940

sipclient.cpp in KPhone 4.0.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a STUN response packet with a large attrLen value that causes an out-of-bounds read.

Medium

CVE-2004-2361

Digital Reality game engine, as used in Haegemonia 1.0 through 1.0.7 and Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps 1.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a chat message with a large…

2004-12-06
Medium

CVE-2004-0635

The SNMP dissector in Ethereal 0.8.15 through 0.10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a (1) malformed or (2) missing community string, which causes an out-of-b…

2004-11-23
Medium

CVE-2004-0112

The SSL/TLS handshaking code in OpenSSL 0.9.7a, 0.9.7b, and 0.9.7c, when using Kerberos ciphersuites, does not properly check the length of Kerberos tickets during a handshake, which allows remote at…

2004-08-18
Medium

CVE-2004-0421

The Portable Network Graphics library (libpng) 1.0.15 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed PNG image file that triggers an error that causes an out-of-bou…

2004-05-10
Medium

CVE-2004-2027

Buffer overflow in Icecast 2.0.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long Basic Authorization header that triggers an out-of-bounds read.

2004-05-04
Medium

CVE-2004-0183

TCPDUMP 3.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via ISAKMP packets containing a Delete payload with a large number of SPI's, which causes an out-of-bounds read,…

Medium

CVE-2004-0184

Integer underflow in the isakmp_id_print for TCPDUMP 3.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an ISAKMP packet with an Identification payload with a length t…

Medium

CVE-2004-0221

isakmpd in OpenBSD 3.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an ISAKMP packet with a delete payload containing a large number of SPIs, which triggers an out-of-…

2004-04-20
Medium

CVE-2004-1992

Buffer overflow in Serv-U FTP server before 5.0.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long -l parameter, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

2003-04-02
Medium

CVE-2003-0072

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.7 and earlier allows remote, authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) on KDCs within the same realm using a certain prot…