CVE-2007-6189

Published Nov 30, 2007 CVSS 2.0 · 9.3 Critical EPSS 8.1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 3:54 PM
Reserved
Nov 29, 2007, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 30, 2007, 1:46 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:47 PM