CWE-823 94 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-823: Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset

Overview

CWE-823 (Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset) 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 performs pointer arithmetic on a valid pointer, but it uses an offset that can point outside of the intended range of valid memory locations for the resulting pointer.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Memory-Unsafe Undetermined
language C Undetermined
language C++ 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-2026-34193 2026-06-01 Kernel software installed and running inside a Guest/Host VM may post improper commands to the GPU Firmware to trigger a write of data outside the intended GPU memory. A logic error in the address …
CVE-2026-28764 2026-05-21 MediaArea MediaInfoLib LXF element parsing heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability
CVE-2026-42946 2026-05-13 A vulnerability exists in the ngx_http_scgi_module and ngx_http_uwsgi_module modules that may result in excessive memory allocation or an over-read of data. When scgi_pass or uwsgi_pass is configured,…
CVE-2026-41907 2026-04-24 uuid is for the creation of RFC9562 (formerly RFC4122) UUIDs. Prior to 14.0.0, v3, v5, and v6 accept external output buffers but do not reject out-of-range writes (small buf or large offset). This all…
CVE-2025-33215 2026-03-24 NVIDIA SNAP-4 Container contains a vulnerability in the VIRTIO-BLK component where a malicious guest VM may cause use of out-of-range pointer offset by sending crafted messages. A successful exploit o…
CVE-2026-21732 2026-03-20 A web page that contains unusual GPU shader code is loaded into the GPU compiler process and can trigger a write out-of-bounds write crash in the GPU shader compiler library. On certain platforms, whe…
CVE-2026-32829 2026-03-20 lz4_flex is a pure Rust implementation of LZ4 compression/decompression. In versions 0.11.5 and below, and 0.12.0, decompressing invalid LZ4 data can leak sensitive information from uninitialized mem…
CVE-2026-20022 2026-03-04 A vulnerability in the OSPF protocol of Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause an affected device to reload unexpec…
CVE-2025-54152 2026-02-11 A use of out-of-range pointer offset vulnerability has been reported to affect Qsync Central. If a remote attacker gains a user account, they can then exploit the vulnerability to read sensitive porti…
CVE-2026-23764 2026-01-22 VB-Audio Voicemeeter, Voicemeeter Banana, and Voicemeeter Potato (versions ending in 1.1.1.9, 2.1.1.9, and 3.1.1.9 and earlier, respectively), as well as VB-Audio Matrix and Matrix Coconut (versions e…
CVE-2026-21487 2026-01-06 iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools for working with ICC color management profiles. Versions 2.3.1.1 and below have an Out-of-bounds Read, Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset and have Improper…
CVE-2017-20211 2025-11-12 UCanCode E-XD++ Visualization Enterprise Suite contains an untrusted pointer dereference vulnerability via the TKDRAWCAD.TKDrawCADCtrl.1 ActiveX control. This is because it exposes a RotateShape metho…
CVE-2025-11232 2025-10-29 To trigger the issue, three configuration parameters must have specific settings: "hostname-char-set" must be left at the default setting, which is "[^A-Za-z0-9.-]"; "hostname-char-replacement" must b…
CVE-2025-47349 2025-10-09 Memory corruption while processing an escape call.
CVE-2025-27059 2025-10-09 Memory corruption while performing SCM call.
CVE-2025-25180 2025-07-14 Software installed and run as a non-privileged user may conduct improper GPU system calls to subvert GPU HW to write to arbitrary physical memory pages. Under certain circumstances this exploit could…
CVE-2024-53017 2025-06-03 Memory corruption while handling test pattern generator IOCTL command.
CVE-2025-46806 2025-06-02 A Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset vulnerability in sslh leads to denial of service on some architectures.This issue affects sslh before 2.2.4.
CVE-2024-47893 2025-05-17 Kernel software installed and running inside a Guest VM may exploit memory shared with the GPU Firmware to read and/or write data outside the Guest's virtualised GPU memory.
CVE-2024-45570 2025-05-06 Memory corruption may occur during IO configuration processing when the IO port count is invalid.

Content submission

Name
CWE Content Team
Organization
MITRE
Date
2010-09-22
Version
1.10

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated References
2019-06-20 CWE Content Team 3.3 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
2020-08-20 CWE Content Team 4.2 updated Relationships
2020-12-10 CWE Content Team 4.3 updated Relationships
2022-04-28 CWE Content Team 4.7 updated Research_Gaps
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-09-09 CWE Content Team 4.18 updated Affected_Resources, Functional_Areas
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Detection_Factors, References, Time_of_Introduction, Weakness_Ordinalities
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