Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CVE-2012-5416
Summary
Buffer overflow in Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing before 7.1MR1 Patch 1, 8.0 before 8.0MR1 Patch 1, and 8.5 before 8.5MR3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon hang) via unspecified parameters in a POST request, aka Bug ID CSCua66341.
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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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Advisory Timeline
- Published