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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2003-1496

High
10/10

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in CDE dtmailpr of HP Tru64 4.0F through 5.1B allows local users to gain privileges via unknown attack vectors. NOTE: due to lack of details in the vendor advisory, it is not clear whether this is the same issue as CVE-1999-0840.

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  • NETWORK
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  • COMPLETE
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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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Advisory Timeline

  • Published