CVE-2023-4265 (GCVE-0-2023-4265)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-12 22:09 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:09
VLAI
Title
Buffer overflow in Zephyr USB
Summary
Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
zephyrproject-rtos Zephyr Affected: * , ≤ 3.3 (git)
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Credits
raptor@0xdeadbeef.info
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