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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2012-3797

High
10/10

Summary

Pro-face WinGP PC Runtime 3.1.00 and earlier, and ProServr.exe in Pro-face Pro-Server EX 1.30.000 and earlier, does not properly check packet sizes before reusing packet memory buffers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a short crafted packet with a certain opcode.

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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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