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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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. | |
Title | Green Dam < 3.174 URL Processing Buffer Overflow | |
Weaknesses | CWE-121 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
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Updated: 2025-09-02T20:41:12.953Z
Reserved: 2025-08-27T18:34:34.964Z
Link: CVE-2009-20008

Updated: 2025-09-02T20:41:05.385Z

Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-08-30T14:15:33.840
Modified: 2025-09-02T15:55:25.420
Link: CVE-2009-20008

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