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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2012-4353

Severity High
Score 9.3/10

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in RunTime.exe in Sielco Sistemi Winlog Pro SCADA before 2.07.17 and Winlog Lite SCADA before 2.07.17 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted port-46824 TCP packet that triggers an incorrect file-open attempt by the _TCPIPS_BinOpenFileFP function, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-3815. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

  • 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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Advisory Timeline

  • Published