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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2007-4580

High
7.2/10

Summary

Buffer underflow in redlight.sys in BufferZone 2.1 and 2.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by sending a small buffer size value to the FsSetVolumeInformation IOCTL handler code with a FsSetDirectoryInformation subcode containing a large buffer.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • 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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