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1 vulnerability by Cytel Inc.
CVE-2011-10015 (GCVE-0-2011-10015)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-13 20:33 – Updated: 2025-08-14 14:31 Unsupported When Assigned
VLAI?
Title
Cytel Studio <= 9.0 .CY3 File Stack Buffer Overflow
Summary
Cytel Studio version 9.0 and earlier is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow triggered by parsing a malformed .CY3 file. The vulnerability occurs when the application copies user-controlled strings into a fixed-size stack buffer (256 bytes) without proper bounds checking. Exploitation allows arbitrary code execution when the crafted file is opened.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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Affected:
* , ≤ 9.0
(semver)
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Credits
Luigi Auriemma
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