National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3227
Original release date:10/26/2010
Last revised:07/19/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Stack-based buffer overflow in the UpdateFrameTitleForDocument method in the CFrameWnd class in mfc42.dll in the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long window title that this library attempts to create at the request of an application, as demonstrated by the Trident PowerZip 7.2 Build 4010 application, aka "Windows MFC Document Title Updating Buffer Overflow Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1024557
External Source: MS
Name: MS10-074
Type: Advisory
External Source: EXPLOIT-DB
Name: 13921
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.eeye.com/Resources/Security-Center/Research/Zero-Day-Tracker/2010/20100705-(1)
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6696
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6696
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5