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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2007-5436

High
7.6/10

Summary

Buffer overflow in a certain ActiveX control in ScanObjectBrowser.DLL in G DATA Antivirus 2007 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified parameters to the SelectPath function. NOTE: this issue might not cross privilege boundaries in most environments, since it is not marked as safe for scripting.

  • HIGH
  • 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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