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Fortinet FortiOS: Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2021-44170)

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Fortinet FortiOS: Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2021-44170)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/18/2022
Created
08/29/2022
Added
07/27/2022
Modified
07/27/2022

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability [CWE-121] in the command line interpreter of FortiOS before 7.0.4 and FortiProxy before 2.0.8 may allow an authenticated attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via specially crafted command line arguments.

Solution(s)

  • fortios-upgrade-6_2_11
  • fortios-upgrade-6_4_9

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