CVE-2017-7908 in Communicator

Summary

A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the third-party product Gigasoft, v5 and prior, included in GE Communicator 3.15 and prior. A malicious HTML file that loads the ActiveX controls can trigger the vulnerability via unchecked function calls.

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• Reservation: 04/18/2017
• Disclosure: 10/02/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-124669
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.9
• EPSS: 0.00252
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7908
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7908
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-7908/