Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CVE-2007-4344
Summary
Multiple input validation errors in ACD ACDSee Photo Manager 9.0 build 108, Pro Photo Manager 8.1 build 99, and Photo Editor 4.0 build 195 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long section string in (1) a PSP image to the ID_PSP.apl plug-in or (2) an LHA archive to the AM_LHA.apl plug-in, resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow.
- MEDIUM
- NETWORK
- NONE
- COMPLETE
- COMPLETE
- COMPLETE
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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