Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CVE-2009-4776
Summary
Buffer overflow in Hitachi Cosminexus V4 through V8, Processing Kit for XML, and Developer's Kit for Java, as used in products such as uCosminexus, Electronic Form Workflow, Groupmax, and IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition 7 and 8, allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via vectors related to the use of GIF image processing APIs by a Java application, and a different issue from CVE-2007-3794.
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- NETWORK
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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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