CWE-843Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

Description

Common consequences· 1

• Availability / Integrity / Confidentiality — Read Memory, Modify Memory, Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands, DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart
  When a memory buffer is accessed using the wrong type, it could read or write memory out of the bounds of the buffer, if the allocated buffer is smaller than the type that the code is attempting to access, leading to a crash and possibly code execution.

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