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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2008-4504

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in Mplayer.exe in Herosoft Inc. Hero DVD Player 3.0.8 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an M3u file with a "long entry." NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

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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