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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-14463

An issue was discovered in libmodbus before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5. There is an out-of-bounds read for the MODBUS_FC_WRITE_MULTIPLE_REGISTERS case, aka VD-1301.

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CVE-2019-14463
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31 Oct 2026, 12:35 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-14463

core-osv · Original source

Published 31 Jul 2019, 23:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in libmodbus before 3.0.7 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5. There is an out-of-bounds read for the MODBUS_FC_WRITE_MULTIPLE_REGISTERS case, aka VD-1301.

osv:CVE-2019-14463
Complete source record
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