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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2017-11563

High
9.8/10

Summary

D-Link EyeOn Baby Monitor (DCS-825L) 1.08.1 has a remote code execution vulnerability. A UDP "Discover" service, which provides multiple functions such as changing the passwords and getting basic information, was installed on the device. A remote attacker can send a crafted UDP request to finderd to perform stack overflow and execute arbitrary code with root privilege on the device.

  • 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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  • Published