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CVE-2007-6189

N/A
Published: November 30, 2007 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOnline Anti Virus Scanner

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 8%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

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Patch and advisory references

References (7)

x_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071120.html
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/27717
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Source: [email protected]
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3405
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Source: [email protected]
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018986
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483986/100/100/threaded
VDB Entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3935
Exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
Source: [email protected]
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4663

CVSS

9.3HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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