Security Advisory

CVE-2016-8385

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-02-27 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:20:31
Assigner talos
CVSS score 8.8
State PUBLISHED

Description

An exploitable uninitialized variable vulnerability which leads to a stack-based buffer overflow exists in Iceni Argus. When it attempts to convert a malformed PDF to XML a stack variable will be left uninitialized which will later be used to fetch a length that is used in a copy operation. In most cases this will allow an aggressor to write outside the bounds of a stack buffer which is used to contain colors. This can lead to code execution under the context of the account running the tool.