CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow

variant

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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parent weaknesses

Broader classes this is a kind of.

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vulnerabilities (4862)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2026-94127UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
When a BIG-IP APM access policy and an OAuth profile are configured on a virtual server, specific malicious traffic can lead to remote code execution (RCE). This vulnerability is o…
CVE-2026-85103US—OT critical—
A heap-based buffer overflow in VPN certificate ASN.1 decoding may allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on Check Point Quantum Security Management and…
CVE-2026-85880UShigh7.8OT criticalKEV
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows ALPC allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
CVE-2026-53362US—OT criticalKEV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: account for fraggap on the paged allocation path In __ip6_append_data(), when the paged-allocation branc…
CVE-2025-25249UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS 7.6.0 through 7.6.3, FortiOS 7.4.0 through 7.4.8, FortiOS 7.2.0 through 7.2.11, FortiOS 7.0.0 through 7.0.17, FortiOS…
CVE-2025-24993US—OT criticalKEV
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows NTFS allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.
CVE-2025-24985US—OT criticalKEV
Integer overflow or wraparound in Windows Fast FAT Driver allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.
CVE-2025-21418US—OT criticalKEV
Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2025-21333US—OT criticalKEV
Windows Hyper-V NT Kernel Integration VSP Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2024-49138US—OT criticalKEV
Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38812UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
The vCenter Server contains a heap-overflow vulnerability in the implementation of the DCERPC protocol. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger this vul…
CVE-2024-37079UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
vCenter Server contains a heap-overflow vulnerability in the implementation of the DCERPC protocol. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger this vulnera…
CVE-2024-30051US—OT criticalKEV
Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-7024UShigh8.8OT criticalKEV
Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.129 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security…
CVE-2023-36036UShigh7.8OT criticalKEV
Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2023-4911UShigh7.8OT criticalKEV
A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to us…
CVE-2023-5217UShigh8.8OT criticalKEV
Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a cra…
CVE-2023-4863UShigh8.8OT criticalKEV
Heap buffer overflow in libwebp in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.187 and libwebp 1.3.2 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted HTML pag…
CVE-2023-27997UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability [CWE-122] in FortiOS version 7.2.4 and below, version 7.0.11 and below, version 6.4.12 and below, version 6.0.16 and below and FortiProxy…
CVE-2023-28252US—OT criticalKEV
Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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attack patterns (1)

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