CWE-1325
Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation
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.
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Common Consequences
Scope
Impact
DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Potential Mitigations
Ensure multiple allocations of the same kind of object are properly tracked - possibly across multiple sessions, requests, or messages. Define an appropriate strategy for handling requests that exceed the limit, and consider supporting a configuration option so that the administrator can extend the amount of memory to be used if necessary.
Run the program using system-provided resource limits for memory. This might still cause the program to crash or exit, but the impact to the rest of the system will be minimized.
CVE-2020-36049JavaScript-based packet decoder uses concatenation of many small strings, causing out-of-memory (OOM) condition
CVE-2019-20176Product allocates a new buffer on the stack for each file in a directory, allowing stack exhaustion
CVE-2013-1591Chain: an integer overflow (CWE-190) in the image size calculation causes an infinite loop (CWE-835) which sequentially allocates buffers without limits (CWE-1325) until the stack is full.
Applicable Platforms
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