# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-43632"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-09-21T13:13:30.579Z"
updatedAt: "2024-09-24T17:09:26.069Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:58.683Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-43632"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-43632.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-43632"
title: "Freely Allocate Buffer on The Stack With Data From Socket"
summary: "\nAs noted in the “VTPM.md” file in the eve documentation, “VTPM is a server listening on port\n8877 in EVE, exposing limited functionality of the TPM to the clients. \nVTPM allows clients to\nexecute tpm2-tools binaries from a list of hardcoded options”\nThe communication with this server is done using protobuf, and the data is comprised of 2\nparts:\n\n1. Header\n\n2. Data\n\nWhen a connection is made, the server is waiting for 4 bytes of data, which will be the header,\nand these 4 bytes would be parsed as uint32 size of the actual data to come.\n\nThen, in the function “handleRequest” this size is then used in order to allocate a payload on\nthe stack for the incoming data.\n\nAs this payload is allocated on the stack, this will allow overflowing the stack size allocated for\nthe relevant process with freely controlled data.\n\n* An attacker can crash the system. \n* An attacker can gain control over the system, specifically on the “vtpm_server” process\nwhich has very high privileges.\n\n\n"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"release","lessThan":"9.5.0"}],"vendor":" LF-Edge, Zededa","product":"EVE OS","packageName":"EVE OS","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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