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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2011-1918

High
10/10

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Data Archiver service in GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Historian before 3.5 SIM 17 and 4.x before 4.0 SIM 12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted TCP message traffic.

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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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