A vulnerability has been found in Alpha5 Smart Loader up to 4.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation as part of a Project File leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple buffer overflow issues have been identified in Alpha5 Smart Loader: All versions prior to 4.2. An attacker could use specially crafted project files to overflow the buffer and execute code under the privileges of the application.

The weakness was published 08/20/2019. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2019-13520 since 07/11/2019. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 4.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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