Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CVE-2018-0644
Summary
Buffer overflow in Ubuntu14.04 ORCA (Online Receipt Computer Advantage) 4.8.0 (panda-client2) 1:1.4.9+p41-u4jma1 and earlier, Ubuntu14.04 ORCA (Online Receipt Computer Advantage) 5.0.0 (panda-client2) 1:2.0.0+p48-u4jma1 and earlier, and Ubuntu16.04 ORCA (Online Receipt Computer Advantage) 5.0.0 (panda-client2) 1:2.0.0+p48-u5jma1 and earlier allows authenticated attackers to cause denial-of-service (DoS) condition via unspecified vectors.
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- NETWORK
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- UNCHANGED
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- 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