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CVE-2007-4550 (GCVE-0-2007-4550)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-08-28 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:01
VLAI
Summary
Format string vulnerability in ALPass 2.7 English and 3.02 Korean might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in an fnm field in a folder-name record in an ALPASS DB (APW) file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://vuln.sg/alpass27-en.html x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/26616 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25435 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2007-08-24 00:00
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