Buffer overflow in Ge Intelligent Platforms Proficy Historian

CVE-2012-0229

The Data Archiver service in GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy Historian 4.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted session on TCP port 14000 to (1) ihDataArchiver.exe or (2) ihDataArchiver_x64.exe.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.050 (91.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Ge Intelligent_platforms_proficy_historian — versions 1.0, 2.0, 3.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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

References

cret@cert.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_MISC)
cret@cert.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cret@cert.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
cret@cert.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)