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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2020-13571

High
8.8/10

Summary

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the SGI RLE decompression functionality of Accusoft ImageGear 19.8. A specially crafted malformed file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • 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