Out-of-bounds heap writes via unchecked capacity
Published Feb 21, 2025 · Updated Apr 5, 2025
Integer overflow in Google Abseil C++ allows attackers to cause out-of-bounds heap writes by requesting an oversized hash container. The sized constructors, reserve(), and rehash() paths for flat and node hash containers accepted unbounded sizes, allowing backing-store arithmetic to wrap before allocation and subsequent writes. Exploitation requires a consuming application to pass an attacker-controlled, extremely large container size; downstream behavior includes invalid memory access or a process crash.
Summary
What happened
Integer overflow in Google Abseil C++ allows attackers to cause out-of-bounds heap writes by requesting an oversized hash container. The sized constructors, reserve(), and rehash() paths for flat and node hash containers accepted unbounded sizes, allowing backing-store arithmetic to wrap before allocation and subsequent writes. Exploitation requires a consuming application to pass an attacker-controlled, extremely large container size; downstream behavior includes invalid memory access or a process crash.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-0838
- Published
- Feb 21, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 5, 2025
- Vendor
- Product
- Abseil C++
- Classifications
- CWE-190
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 21, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 5, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <5a0e2cb5e3958dd90bb8569a2766622cb74d90c1
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