The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
1
cwe_id
122
name
Heap-based Buffer Overflow
description
A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().
2
cwe_id
126
name
Buffer Over-read
description
The product reads from a buffer using buffer access mechanisms such as indexes or pointers that reference memory locations after the targeted buffer.