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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2018-8833

High
7.8/10

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Advantech WebAccess HMI Designer 2.1.7.32 and prior caused by processing specially crafted .pm3 files may allow remote code execution.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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  • Published