A vulnerability was found in MicroPython 1.23.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function mpz_as_bytes of the file py/objint.c. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow.

This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-8948. The attack may be launched remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.