Visual Basic to C/GTK gettoken buffer overflow
| vb2c-gettoken-bo (18605) |  High Risk |
Description:
Visual Basic to C/GTK (vb2c) is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking in the gettoken function. By creating a specially-crafted FRM file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with user privileges, once the file is processed by vb2c.
Platforms Affected:
- Michael Kohn, Visual Basic to C/GTK (vb2c) 0.02 and prior
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- University of Illinois Chicago Web site, vb2c 0.02 parse_sub overflows token buffer at http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/vb2c.txt.
- Visual Basic to C/GTK Web page, VB2C at http://www.naken.cc/vb2c/.
- BID-12020: Michael Kohn VB2C FRM File Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- CVE-2004-1298: Buffer overflow in the parse function in vb2c.c for vb2c 0.02 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted FRM file.
Reported:
Dec 16, 2004
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