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5.8 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): Present (P)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): Passive (P)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): High (H)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): Present (P)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): Passive (P)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): High (H)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
  • Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
  • Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
created 3 weeks, 3 days ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion
msgpack-c Integer Overflow in msgpack_unpacker_expand_buffer Causes a False-Success Undersized Reservation

msgpack_unpacker_expand_buffer in src/unpack.c, reached through the public msgpack_unpacker_reserve_buffer API, computes its new buffer size using an unchecked size_t addition of the requested size and the amount already used. The doubling loop guards its own multiplication against overflow, but the addition in the loop condition is unguarded, so a request near SIZE_MAX wraps: the loop condition is already satisfied, the allocation is performed at the small pre-wrap size, and the function returns true. The caller is told the requested capacity was reserved when it was not, so a subsequent write of the requested length overflows the heap buffer. The library's own example/lib_buffer_unpack.c demonstrates the reserve-then-write pattern, and its defensive assert comparing capacity against the request is compiled out under NDEBUG. msgpack-c's own decode entry points do not derive the reservation size from untrusted input, so reaching this requires an integration that passes an attacker-influenced length to the reservation API, such as a length-prefixed streaming transport.

Affected products

msgpack-c
  • =<7.0.1

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