CVE-2005-2679 - CVE House

Status published Critical CVE-2005-2679

Buffer overflow in Sysinternals Process Explorer 9.23, and other versions...

10 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

Buffer overflow in Sysinternals Process Explorer 9.23, and other versions before 9.25, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long CompanyName field in the VersionInfo information in a running process.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

sysinternals

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Affected Software

process explorer

Vulnerable Versions:

9.23.0.0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 23rd, 2005

Last Modified: September 17th, 2024

Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.