PicoC 3.2.2 expression.c ExpressionAssign heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in PicoC 3.2.2. The affected element is the function ExpressionAssign of the file expression.c. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-44315. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in PicoC 3.2.2. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function ExpressionAssign of the file expression.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

PicoC Version 3.2.2 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow in the ExpressionAssign function in expression.c when called from ExpressionParseFunctionCall.

The weakness was shared 11/08/2022 as 37. The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-44315 since 10/30/2022. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• PicoC

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• 3.2.2

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