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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2008-6897 EUVD-2008-6857GHSA-645w-qx9c-jp9g

Multiple buffer overflows in Getleft.exe in Andres Garcia Getleft 1.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possi…

Published Aug 5, 2009 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Getleft.exe in Andres Garcia Getleft 1.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long (1) "a" HTML tag; a long src attribute in (2) embed, (3) img, or (4) script tags; (5) a long background attribute in a body tag; and other unspecified tags.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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