The CWE-416 vulnerability, also known as "Unspecified Buffer Overflow", is a type of buffer overflow attack. This occurs when an application writes data to a buffer without checking its size, allowing an attacker to inject malicious code that can execute arbitrary commands on the system.
Version info not stated in advisory.
Check with: find / -name "libc.so*" 2>/dev/null
Apply a patch from the vendor's website: https://example.com/patch-for-cwe-416
- Immediate mitigations:
+ Limit buffer sizes using bounds checking (e.g., strncpy instead of strcpy)
+ Use secure coding practices to prevent buffer overflows (e.g., use snprintf instead of sprintf)