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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

Published Nov 30, 2007

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 products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (7)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 30, 2007
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Nov 29, 2007
Link CVE-2007-6189
CISA Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2007-6189
Red Hat
Severity n/a
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Links CVE-2007-6189
ENISA EUVD
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