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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2007-5687

High
9.3/10

Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in the rich text processing functionality in JustSystems Ichitaro 2004 through 2007, 11 through 13, and other versions allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) pard field or (2) font name in the fcharset0 field, which is not properly handled in (a) JSTARO4.OCX; or (3) a long title, which is not properly handled by (b) TJSVDA.DLL.

  • 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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