CVE-2007-1891 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2007-1891

Stack-based buffer overflow in the GetPrivateProfileSectionW function in Akamai Technologies...

Vulnerability Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the GetPrivateProfileSectionW function in Akamai Technologies Download Manager ActiveX Control (DownloadManagerV2.ocx) after 2.0.4.4 but before 2.2.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, related to misinterpretation of the nSize parameter as a byte count instead of a wide character count.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

akamai technologies

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Affected Software

download manager
Vulnerable Versions:
2.2.0.0

Timeline

Official Publish: April 18th, 2007
Last Modified: August 7th, 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.