CVE-2007-6189

N/A Unknown
Published: November 30, 2007 Modified: April 23, 2026
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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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27717
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27717
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3405
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018986
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483986/100/100/threaded
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3935
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4663
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

14 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
8.1%
94th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

bitdefender