Buffer overflow in Softonic Scite

CVE-2009-3857

Buffer overflow in Softonic International SciTE 1.72 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a Ruby (.rb) file containing a long string, which triggers the crash when a scroll bar is used.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.020 (78.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Softonic Scite — versions 1.72
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)