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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2013-0682

High
7.5/10

Summary

Cogent Real-Time Systems Cogent DataHub before 7.3.0, OPC DataHub before 6.4.22, Cascade DataHub before 6.4.22 on Windows, and DataHub QuickTrend before 7.3.0 do not properly handle exceptions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via malformed data in a formatted text command, leading to out-of-bounds access to (1) heap or (2) stack memory.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
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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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