CWE-788

• CWE ID
• 788

• CWE Name
• Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer

• CWE Abstraction
• Base

• CWE structure
• Simple

• CWE Status
• Incomplete

The software reads or writes to a buffer using an index or pointer that references a memory location after the end of the buffer.

This typically occurs when a pointer or its index is incremented to a position after the buffer; or when pointer arithmetic results in a position after the buffer.