CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-26232

Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

Published: Apr 09, 2024 | Modified: Dec 06, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Weakness

The product allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Windows_10_1507 Microsoft * 10.0.10240.20596 (excluding)
Windows_10_1607 Microsoft * 10.0.14393.6897 (excluding)
Windows_10_1809 Microsoft * 10.0.17763.5696 (excluding)
Windows_10_21h2 Microsoft * 10.0.19044.4291 (excluding)
Windows_10_22h2 Microsoft * 10.0.19045.4291 (excluding)
Windows_11_21h2 Microsoft * 10.0.22000.2899 (excluding)
Windows_11_22h2 Microsoft * 10.0.22621.3447 (excluding)
Windows_11_23h2 Microsoft * 10.0.22631.3447 (excluding)
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft –sp2 (including) –sp2 (including)
Windows_server_2008 Microsoft r2-sp1 (including) r2-sp1 (including)
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft - (including) - (including)
Windows_server_2012 Microsoft r2 (including) r2 (including)
Windows_server_2016 Microsoft * 10.0.14393.6897 (excluding)
Windows_server_2019 Microsoft * 10.0.17763.5696 (excluding)
Windows_server_2022 Microsoft * 10.0.20348.2402 (excluding)
Windows_server_2022_23h2 Microsoft * 10.0.25398.830 (excluding)

Extended Description

When the product accesses the resource using an incompatible type, this could trigger logical errors because the resource does not have expected properties. In languages without memory safety, such as C and C++, type confusion can lead to out-of-bounds memory access. While this weakness is frequently associated with unions when parsing data with many different embedded object types in C, it can be present in any application that can interpret the same variable or memory location in multiple ways. This weakness is not unique to C and C++. For example, errors in PHP applications can be triggered by providing array parameters when scalars are expected, or vice versa. Languages such as Perl, which perform automatic conversion of a variable of one type when it is accessed as if it were another type, can also contain these issues.

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