How severe is CVE-2017-17408?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 8.8 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2017-17408?

This is classified as CWE-190, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2017-17408 - HIGH Severity | CVSS 8.8

Vulnerability Description

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Bitdefender Internet Security 2018. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within cevakrnl.xmd. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in an integer overflow before allocating a buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of SYSTEM. Was ZDI-CAN-5101.

Related Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-0129

HIGH

CVSS:8.8(High)

Multiple integer overflows in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.7.609 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted .dir (ak...

CWE-1902010

CVE-2010-0130

HIGH

CVSS:8.8(High)

Integer overflow in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.7.609 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .dir (aka Director) file.

CWE-1902010

CVE-2010-2753

HIGH

CVSS:8.8(High)

Integer overflow in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.11 and 3.6.x before 3.6.7, Thunderbird 3.0.x before 3.0.6 and 3.1.x before 3.1.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.6 allows remote attackers to execute arb...

CWE-1902010

CVE-2011-3631

HIGH

CVSS:8.8(High)

Hardlink before 0.1.2 has multiple integer overflows leading to heap-based buffer overflows because of the way string lengths concatenation is done in the calculation of the required memory space to b...

CWE-1902011

CVE-2012-5054

HIGH

CVSS:8.8(High)

Integer overflow in the copyRawDataTo method in the Matrix3D class in Adobe Flash Player before 11.4.402.265 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed arguments.

CWE-1902012

CVE-2014-4607

HIGH

CVSS:8.8(High)

Integer overflow in the LZO algorithm variant in Oberhumer liblzo2 and lzo-2 before 2.07 on 32-bit platforms might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Literal Run.

CWE-1902014