Advisories

Ghidra 11.2 through 12.1.4 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via StringManager

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severity
medium
date
Affecting
  • ghidra >= 11.2, <= 12.1.4

CWE
  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
CVSS
4.8
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Asif Nadaf
Description
Ghidra versions 11.2 through 12.1.4 contain a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in StringManager::getCodepoint when decoding multi-byte UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32 characters without validating remaining buffer length. Attackers can craft malicious binaries with constant byte stores ending in multi-byte lead units to trigger out-of-bounds reads that crash the decompiler or leak adjacent heap memory into decompiled output.

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