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High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 21, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-17408

CVE-2017-17408

Description

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Bitdefender Internet Security 2018. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within cevakrnl.xmd. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in an integer overflow before allocating a buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of SYSTEM. Was ZDI-CAN-5101.

Affected products

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  • Bitdefender/Bitdefender Internet Securityv5
    Range: 2018

Patches

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No patches discovered yet.

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