Vulnerabilites related to Cytel Inc. - Studio
CVE-2011-10015 (GCVE-0-2011-10015)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-13 20:33
Modified
2025-08-14 14:31
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CWE
- CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Summary
Cytel Studio version 9.0 and earlier is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow triggered by parsing a malformed .CY3 file. The vulnerability occurs when the application copies user-controlled strings into a fixed-size stack buffer (256 bytes) without proper bounds checking. Exploitation allows arbitrary code execution when the crafted file is opened.
References
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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Cytel Inc. | Studio |
Version: * ≤ 9.0 |
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