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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2017-16930

High
9.8/10

Summary

The remote management interface on the Claymore Dual GPU miner 10.1 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code due to a stack-based buffer overflow in the request handler. This can be exploited via a long API request that is mishandled during logging.

  • 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