Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CVE-2007-4943
Summary
Multiple buffer overflows in a certain ActiveX control in sparser.dll in Baofeng Storm 2.8 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed input in an unknown set of arguments or property values, a different DLL than CVE-2007-4816. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.
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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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