CWE-1325 17 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-1325: Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation

Overview

CWE-1325 (Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product manages a group of objects or resources and performs a separate memory allocation for each object, but it does not properly limit the total amount of memory that is consumed by all of the combined objects.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language C Undetermined
language C++ Undetermined
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-34183 2026-06-09 Issue summary: Remote peer may exhaust heap memory of the QUIC server or client by flooding it with packets containing PATH_CHALLENGE frames. Impact summary: A malicious remote peer can cause an unbo…
CVE-2026-8199 2026-05-13 An authenticated user can cause excess memory usage via bitwise match expression AST processing of $bitsAllSet, $bitsAnySet, $bitsAllClear, and $bitsAnyClear. This contributes to memory pressure and m…
CVE-2026-6869 2026-04-30 WebSocket protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
CVE-2026-6867 2026-04-30 SMB2 protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
CVE-2026-6535 2026-04-30 Dissection engine zlib decompression crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
CVE-2026-6533 2026-04-30 Dissection engine LZ77 decompression crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
CVE-2026-3201 2026-02-25 USB HID protocol dissector memory exhaustion in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.3 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.13 allows denial of service
CVE-2026-24819 2026-01-27 Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation vulnerability in foxinmy weixin4j (weixin4j-base/src/main/java/com/foxinmy/weixin4j/util modules). This vulnerability is associated with program file…
CVE-2025-13945 2025-12-03 HTTP3 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 and 4.6.1 allows denial of service
CVE-2025-2240 2025-03-12 A flaw was found in Smallrye, where smallrye-fault-tolerance is vulnerable to an out-of-memory (OOM) issue. This vulnerability is externally triggered when calling the metrics URI. Every call creates …
CVE-2023-52891 2024-07-09 A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic (All versions < V7.5), SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO (All versions < V7.5), SIMATIC IPC DiagBase (All versions), SIMATIC IPC DiagMonito…
CVE-2024-27804 2024-05-14 The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5, tvOS 17.5, visionOS 1.3, watchOS 10.5. An app may be able to cause unexpected…
CVE-2024-27796 2024-05-14 The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.7.8 and iPadOS 16.7.8, iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, macOS Monterey 12.7.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5, macOS Ventura 13.6.7. An attacker…
CVE-2024-2511 2024-04-08 Issue summary: Some non-default TLS server configurations can cause unbounded memory growth when processing TLSv1.3 sessions Impact summary: An attacker may exploit certain server configurations to t…
CVE-2023-3341 2023-09-20 The code that processes control channel messages sent to `named` calls certain functions recursively during packet parsing. Recursion depth is only limited by the maximum accepted packet size; dependi…
CVE-2023-28968 2023-04-17 An Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation vulnerability in the Juniper Networks Deep Packet Inspection-Decoder (JDPI-Decoder) Application Signature component of Junos OS's AppID service on…
CVE-2021-43174 2021-11-09 NLnet Labs Routinator versions 0.9.0 up to and including 0.10.1, support the gzip transfer encoding when querying RRDP repositories. This encoding can be used by an RRDP repository to cause an out-of-…

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2020-12-07
Version
4.3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2021-07-20 CWE Content Team 4.5 updated Observed_Examples
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
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