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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2014-7859

High
9.8/10

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in login_mgr.cgi in D-Link firmware DNR-320L and DNS-320LW before 1.04b08, DNR-322L before 2.10 build 03, DNR-326 before 2.10 build 03, and DNS-327L before 1.04b01 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting malformed "Host" and "Referer" header values.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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  • Published