Interpreter crash via out-of-bounds integer coercion
Published Nov 8, 2022 · Updated May 1, 2025
Heap buffer overflow in PicoC 3.2.2 allows local users to crash the interpreter by running a crafted C source file. ExpressionCoerceInteger reads four bytes beyond a heap allocation while ExpressionInfixOperator evaluates a crafted infix expression. Execution requires the file to be supplied to a local PicoC process; the demonstrated result is an AddressSanitizer-detected abort.
Summary
What happened
Heap buffer overflow in PicoC 3.2.2 allows local users to crash the interpreter by running a crafted C source file. ExpressionCoerceInteger reads four bytes beyond a heap allocation while ExpressionInfixOperator evaluates a crafted infix expression. Execution requires the file to be supplied to a local PicoC process; the demonstrated result is an AddressSanitizer-detected abort.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-44312
- Published
- Nov 8, 2022
- Updated
- May 1, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-787
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 8, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 1, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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Public exploit references
- ExpressionCoerceInteger heap-overflow reproductionproof of concept · demonstrated
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