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CVE-2007-6189

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2007-11-30 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Bitdefender Online Anti-Virus Scanner

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References