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Access of Memory Location Before Start of Buffer

CWE-786 · Base · Incomplete

The product reads or writes to a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location prior to the beginning of the buffer.

Extended description

This typically occurs when a pointer or its index is decremented to a position before the buffer, when pointer arithmetic results in a position before the beginning of the valid memory location, or when a negative index is used.

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