CVE-2018-16790 (GCVE-0-2018-16790)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-10 05:00
Modified
2025-11-03 19:25
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
_bson_iter_next_internal in bson-iter.c in libbson 1.12.0, as used in MongoDB mongo-c-driver and other products, has a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted bson buffer.
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