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Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer

CWE-788 · Base · Incomplete

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

Extended description

This typically occurs when a pointer or its index is incremented to a position after the buffer.

or when pointer arithmetic results in a position after the buffer.

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