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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2008-3430

High
9.3/10

Summary

Buffer overflow in the CoVideoWindow.ocx ActiveX control 5.0.907.1 in Eyeball MessengerSDK, as used in products such as SiOL Komunikator 1.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large argument supplied to the BGColor method. NOTE: this might only be a vulnerability in certain insecure configurations of Internet Explorer.

  • 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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