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CVE-2016-4289

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the method receiving data from SysTreeView32 control of the GMER 2.1.19357 application. A specially created long path can lead to a buffer overflow on the stack resulting in code execution. An attacker needs to create path longer than 99 characters to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• GMER: 2.1.19357

References

• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0127/
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0127/

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