Leawo Prof. Media 11.0.0.1 Registration Interface activation keycode buffer overflow

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A vulnerability has been found in Leawo Prof. Media 11.0.0.1 and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component Registration Interface. Performing a manipulation of the argument activation keycode results in buffer overflow. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2021-47797. Attacking locally is a requirement. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Leawo Prof. Media 11.0.0.1. This affects an unknown part of the component Registration Interface. The manipulation of the argument activation keycode with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

Leawo Prof. Media 11.0.0.1 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by supplying an oversized payload in the activation keycode field. Attackers can generate a 6000-byte buffer of repeated characters to trigger an application crash when pasted into the registration interface.

The weakness was published by Achilles as 50153. The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2021-47797 since 01/14/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details and a public exploit are known.

The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (50153). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• Leawo

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• Prof. Media

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• 11.0.0.1

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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