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GHSA-78C2-XVVR-VQ4G

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:01 – Updated: 2025-04-20 03:33

Details

An exploitable uninitialized variable vulnerability which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow exists in Iceni Argus. When it attempts to convert a malformed PDF to XML a stack variable will be left uninitialized which will later be used to fetch a length that is used in a copy operation. In most cases this will allow an aggressor to write outside the bounds of a stack buffer which is used to contain colors. This can lead to code execution under the context of the account running the tool.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2016-8385 (GCVE-0-2016-8385)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-27 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:20

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

PDF Code Execution

Assigner

talos mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96472	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-20…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Iceni	Argus	Affected: 6.6.04 (Sep 7 2012) NK

Date Public

2017-02-27 00:00

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