CVE-2026-4460

What is this vulnerability?

CVE-2026-4460 is categorized as a critical Buffer Overflow flaw. Based on our vulnerability intelligence, this issue occurs when the application fails to securely handle untrusted data boundaries.

Out of bounds read in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 146.0.7680.153 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML pa...

This architectural defect enables adversaries to bypass intended security controls, directly manipulating the application's execution state or data layer. Immediate strategic intervention is required.

Risk Assessment

Impact on Systems

✅ Remote Code Execution: Attackers can overwrite the instruction pointer (EIP/RIP) to redirect execution to malicious shellcode.

✅ Memory Corruption: Overwriting adjacent memory regions can corrupt critical application state, leading to unpredictable privilege escalation.

✅ Denial of Service: Triggering segmentation faults and kernel panics results in immediate disruption of critical systems.

How to fix this issue?

Implement the following strategic mitigations immediately to eliminate the attack surface.

1. Memory-Safe Languages Where possible, migrate critical parsing logic to memory-safe languages like Rust or Go.

2. Safe Standard Libraries Replace unbounded C functions (strcpy, sprintf) with boundary-checking equivalents (strncpy, snprintf).

3. Compiler Defenses Ensure software is compiled with modern defensive flags: ASLR, DEP/NX, Stack Canaries (SSP), and Position Independent Executables (PIE).

Vulnerability Signature

// Vulnerable C Function
void parse_network_packet(char *untrusted_data) \{
    char local_buffer[128];
    // VULNERABLE: strcpy does not verify the length of the source data
    strcpy(local_buffer, untrusted_data);
    printf("Packet Processed.");
\}

// EXPLOIT PAYLOAD: 128 bytes of padding + [Overwrite EIP Address]

References and Sources

• NVD — CVE-2026-4460
• MITRE — CVE-2026-4460
• CWE-125 — MITRE CWE
• CWE-125 Details
• Binary Analysis Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Code Signature

Attack Data Flow

Vulnerable Code Pattern

// ❌ VULNERABLE: Out-of-bounds read
void read_data(char *input, int length) {
    char buffer[64] = {0};
    // Taint sink: reads beyond buffer size if length > 64
    memcpy(buffer, input, length);
}

Secure Code Pattern

// ✅ SECURE: Bounded read
void read_data(char *input, int length) {
    char buffer[64] = {0};
    // Sanitized boundary check
    int safe_length = (length > sizeof(buffer)) ? sizeof(buffer) : length;
    memcpy(buffer, input, safe_length);
}

How Precogs Detects This

Precogs Binary SAST engine explicitly uncovers memory boundary violations and unsafe memory management functions in compiled binaries.\n