High severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 30, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2009-20008
CVE-2009-20008
Description
Green Dam Youth Escort version 3.17 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when processing overly long URLs. The flaw resides in the URL filtering component, which fails to properly validate input length before copying user-supplied data into a fixed-size buffer. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted webpage containing a long URL, resulting in arbitrary code execution.
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Affected products
1- Range: = 3.17
Patches
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References
6- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escortnvd
- raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/greendam_url.rbnvd
- web.archive.org/web/20110426190759/http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pub/gd/nvd
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8938nvd
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8969nvd
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/green-dam-url-processing-buffer-overflownvd
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