Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 30, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2007-6189
CVE-2007-6189
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.
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Affected products
2cpe:2.3:a:bitdefender:online_anti-virus_scanner:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:bitdefender:online_anti-virus_scanner:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: 8.0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
7- secunia.com/advisories/27717nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071120.htmlnvd
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3405nvd
- securitytracker.com/idnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483986/100/100/threadednvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3935nvd
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4663nvd
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