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CVE-2017-17408

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-12-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

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

• Bitdefender Internet Security: through 73447

References

• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-17-942
• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-17-942

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