Title : PowerArchiver BlackHole Archives Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3378 CVE ID : CVE-2007-5279
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-10-05
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in PowerArchiver, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when processing malformed BlackHole archives, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise an affected system by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted archive.
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