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CVE-2008-6897

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-08-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Getleft.exe in Andres Garcia Getleft 1.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long (1) "a" HTML tag; a long src attribute in (2) embed, (3) img, or (4) script tags; (5) a long background attribute in a body tag; and other unspecified tags.

Affected products

• Andres Garcia Getleft: 1.2

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32994
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47597
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7564
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32994
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47597
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7564

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