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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2008-0768

High
10/10

Summary

Multiple stack-based and heap-based buffer overflows in the Windows RPC components for IBM Informix Storage Manager (ISM), as used in Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 10.00.xC8 and earlier and 11.10.xC2 and earlier, allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted XDR requests.

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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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