CVE-2012-6706
Sophos Anti-Virus Threat Detection Engine Unrar VMSF_DELTA Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description
A VMSF_DELTA memory corruption was discovered in unrar before 5.5.5, as used in Sophos Anti-Virus Threat Detection Engine before 3.37.2 and other products, that can lead to arbitrary code execution. An integer overflow can be caused in DataSize+CurChannel. The result is a negative value of the "DestPos" variable, which allows the attacker to write out of bounds when setting Mem[DestPos].
INFO
Published Date :
June 22, 2017, 1:29 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 1:46 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github
CVE-2012-6706 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github.
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CVE-2012-6706 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://securitytracker.com/id?1027725 Added Reference http://telussecuritylabs.com/threats/show/TSL20121207-01 Added Reference https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1286 Added Reference https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/118424#six Added Reference https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10205 Added Reference https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophailv2.pdf Added Reference https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/11/05/tavis-ormandy-sophos/ Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-05 Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-24 Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-16 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-16 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 31, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10205 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 27, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-24 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 22, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-05 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Jul. 06, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Changed Reference Type http://securitytracker.com/id?1027725 No Types Assigned http://securitytracker.com/id?1027725 Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type http://telussecuritylabs.com/threats/show/TSL20121207-01 No Types Assigned http://telussecuritylabs.com/threats/show/TSL20121207-01 Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1286 No Types Assigned https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1286 Exploit, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophailv2.pdf No Types Assigned https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophailv2.pdf Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/118424#six No Types Assigned https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/118424#six Vendor Advisory Changed Reference Type https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/11/05/tavis-ormandy-sophos/ No Types Assigned https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/11/05/tavis-ormandy-sophos/ Vendor Advisory Added CWE CWE-190 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:sophos:threat_detection_engine:3.36.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:rarlab:unrar:5.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous)
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
3.76 }} -1.17%
score
0.91702
percentile