Buffer overflow in Bitdefender Online Anti-Virus Scanner
CVE-2007-6189
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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.081 (94.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.081 · newest: 0.081 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Bitdefender Online Anti-Virus Scanner — versions 8.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071120.html
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3405 (third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3935 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/27717 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4663 (exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483986/100/100/threaded (mailing-list)