CVE-2022-2979 (GCVE-0-2022-2979)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-09-12 19:24
Modified
2025-04-16 17:47
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free
Summary
Opening a specially crafted file could cause the affected product to fail to release its memory reference potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| Omron | CX-Programmer |
Version: All < v9.78 |
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