CVE-2017-17409

CVE-2017-17409

Vendor Bitdefender
Product Bitdefender Internet Security
Weakness CWE-190
Published December 21, 2017
Last update August 5, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

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 emulator 0x10A in cevakrnl.xmd. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in an integer overflow before writing to memory. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of SYSTEM. Was ZDI-CAN-5102.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 21, 2017 CVE published
August 5, 2024 Record updated