CVE-2011-10015 (GCVE-0-2011-10015)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-13 20:33
Modified
2025-08-14 14:31
Severity ?
9.3 (Critical) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
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.
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Cytel Inc. Studio Version: *   ≤ 9.0
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