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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2016-6447

High
9.8/10

Summary

A vulnerability in Cisco Meeting Server and Meeting App could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. This vulnerability affects the following products: Cisco Meeting Server releases prior to 2.0.1, Acano Server releases prior to 1.8.16 and prior to 1.9.3, Cisco Meeting App releases prior to 1.9.8, Acano Meeting Apps releases prior to 1.8.35. More Information: CSCva75942 CSCvb67878. Known Affected Releases: 1.81.92.0.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

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