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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2006-3890 EUVD-2006-3884GHSA-h93x-p3vc-8fx7

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Sky Software FileView ActiveX control, as used in WinZip 10 before build 7245 and in certain other appli…

Published Nov 21, 2006 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by certcc

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Sky Software FileView ActiveX control, as used in WinZip 10 before build 7245 and in certain other applications, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long FilePattern attribute in a WZFILEVIEW object, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5198.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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