CWE-469 Use of Pointer Subtraction to Determine Size

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The product subtracts one pointer from another in order to determine size, but this calculation can be incorrect if the pointers do not exist in the same memory chunk.

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vulnerabilities (3)

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IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2026-23143USmedium5.5—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio_net: Fix misalignment bug in struct virtnet_info Use the new TRAILING_OVERLAP() helper to fix a misalig…
CVE-2026-72150US——
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sunrpc: fix uninitialized xprt_create_args structure The xprt_create_args structure is allocated on the stack…
CVE-2019-25595US——
jetAudio 8.1.7.20702 Basic contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows local attackers to crash the application by supplying an excessively long string through the URL i…
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