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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2011-3321

High
9.3/10

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Siemens WinCC Runtime Advanced Loader, as used in SIMATIC WinCC flexible Runtime and SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal) Runtime Advanced, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet to TCP port 2308.

  • 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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  • Published