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Fortinet FortiManager: Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2021-42757)

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Fortinet FortiManager: Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2021-42757)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/08/2021
Created
03/14/2022
Added
03/14/2022
Modified
08/11/2023

Description

A buffer overflow [CWE-121] in the TFTP client library of FortiOS before 6.4.7 and FortiOS 7.0.0 through 7.0.2, may allow an authenticated local attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution via specially crafted command line arguments.

Solution(s)

  • fortinet-fortimanager-upgrade-6_0_12
  • fortinet-fortimanager-upgrade-6_2_10
  • fortinet-fortimanager-upgrade-6_4_8
  • fortinet-fortimanager-upgrade-7_0_3

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