CWE-122

• CWE ID
• 122

• CWE Name
• Heap-based Buffer Overflow

• CWE Abstraction
• Variant

• CWE structure
• Simple

• CWE Status
• Draft

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().