ByronKnoll Cmix 19 paq8 buffer overflow

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in ByronKnoll Cmix 19. This issue affects the function paq8. This manipulation causes buffer overflow. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-29596. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in ByronKnoll Cmix 19. Affected by this vulnerability is the function paq8. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Buffer Overflow vulnerability found in ByronKnoll Cmix v.19 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service via the paq8 function.

The weakness was shared 04/27/2023 as 54. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-29596 since 04/07/2023. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-33137). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• ByronKnoll

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• Cmix

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• 19

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• Product: https://github.com/byronknoll/cmix/

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