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Systems & Memory

Out-of-Bounds Read

Also: buffer over-read, CWE-125

Reading memory beyond the end of the block a program was meant to use, leaking whatever sits next to it.

In more detail

Unlike an overflow it changes nothing, but it exposes confidential data such as keys and passwords. Heartbleed was an out-of-bounds read; it is classified as CWE-125.

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