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Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in Mongoose Web Server library

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset vulnerability in Cesanta Mongoose Web Server v7.14 allows an attacker to send an unexpected TLS packet and force the application to read unintended heap memory space.

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CVEs
CVE-2024-42388
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3 Nov 2026, 06:30 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in Mongoose Web Server library

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Nov 2024, 09:06 UTC

Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset vulnerability in Cesanta Mongoose Web Server v7.14 allows an attacker to send an unexpected TLS packet and force the application to read unintended heap memory space.

osv:CVE-2024-42388
Complete source record
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