CVE-2008-1101

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in kvdocve.dll in the KeyView document viewing engine in Autonomy (formerly Verity) KeyView, as used by IBM Lotus Notes 7.0.2 and 7.0.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long pathname, as demonstrated by a long SRC attribute of an IMG element in an HTML document.

Affected products

Autonomy Keyview: 2.0.0.2, 10.3.0.0
IBM Lotus Notes: 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 7.0.2, 7.0.3

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/28140
http://secunia.com/advisories/28209
http://secunia.com/advisories/28210
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-12/advisory/
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&uid=swg21298453
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490826/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28454
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1153
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1156
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41725
http://secunia.com/advisories/28140
http://secunia.com/advisories/28209

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