CVE-2007-6189 (GCVE-0-2007-6189)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-11-30 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:54
VLAI
Summary
A certain ActiveX control in (1) OScan8.ocx and (2) Oscan81.ocx in BitDefender Online Anti-Virus Scanner 8.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the InitX method that begins with a "%%" sequence, which is misinterpreted as a Unicode string and decoded twice, leading to improper memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018986 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/publishe… x_refsource_MISC
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3405 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3935 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/27717 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4663 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483986/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2007-11-20 00:00
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