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Multiple buffer overflows in Getleft.exe in Andres Garcia Getleft 1.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long (1) "a" HTML tag; a long src attribute in (2) embed, (3) img, or (4) script tags; (5) a long background attribute in a body tag; and other unspecified tags

Published Aug 5, 2009

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Getleft.exe in Andres Garcia Getleft 1.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long (1) "a" HTML tag; a long src attribute in (2) embed, (3) img, or (4) script tags; (5) a long background attribute in a body tag; and other unspecified tags.

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Remediation

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Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Aug 5, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Aug 5, 2009
Link CVE-2008-6897
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2008-6897
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2008-6897