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CVE-2024-57538 (GCVE-0-2024-57538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-21 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-04 15:37
VLAI
Summary
Linksys E8450 v1.2.00.360516 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow vulnerability. The parsed field (anonymous_protect_status) is copied to the stack without length verification.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-04 15:37 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Assigner
References
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