Heap disclosure via short annotation glyph body
Published Aug 11, 2026 · Updated Aug 11, 2026
Buffer over-read in Zoom Clients allows remote attackers to expose heap data through crafted meeting annotations sent over a network. The glyph-buffer parser allocates from a sender-controlled character count, copies only the short packet body, and leaves the unread tail as live uninitialized heap memory. Exploitation requires participation in the same meeting; the leak exposes pointers useful for bypassing ASLR but does not itself execute code.
Summary
What happened
Buffer over-read in Zoom Clients allows remote attackers to expose heap data through crafted meeting annotations sent over a network. The glyph-buffer parser allocates from a sender-controlled character count, copies only the short packet body, and leaves the unread tail as live uninitialized heap memory. Exploitation requires participation in the same meeting; the leak exposes pointers useful for bypassing ASLR but does not itself execute code.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-53414
- Published
- Aug 11, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 11, 2026
- Vendor
- Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
- Product
- Zoom Clients
- Classifications
- CWE-126, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 11, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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