Description
A certain ActiveX control in (1) OScan8.ocx and (2) Oscan81.ocx in BitDefender Online Anti-Virus Scanner 8.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the InitX method that begins with a "%%" sequence, which is misinterpreted as a Unicode string and decoded twice, leading to improper memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow.
Published: 2007-11-30
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: 23.2% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Bitdefender Online Anti-virus Scanner
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:54:27.109Z

Reserved: 2007-11-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-6189

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Status : Modified

Published: 2007-11-30T01:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-6189

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