async-sockets-cpp up to 0.3.1 TCP Packet tcpsocket.hpp stack-based overflow

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in async-sockets-cpp up to 0.3.1. This affects an unknown part of the file tcpsocket.hpp of the component TCP Packet Handler. The manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-38632. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in async-sockets-cpp up to 0.3.1. This issue affects an unknown code of the file tcpsocket.hpp of the component TCP Packet Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

async-sockets-cpp through 0.3.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow in tcpsocket.hpp when processing malformed TCP packets.

The weakness was disclosed 07/21/2023 as 31. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-38632 since 07/21/2023. 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.

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• async-sockets-cpp

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• 0.3.0
• 0.3.1

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