CVE-2016-4289
A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the method receiving data from SysTreeView32 control of the GMER 2.1.19357…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- certcc
Description
A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the method receiving data from SysTreeView32 control of the GMER 2.1.19357 application. A specially created long path can lead to a buffer overflow on the stack resulting in code execution. An attacker needs to create path longer than 99 characters to trigger this vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.58% · top 52% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
- Buffer Overflow
- CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (1)
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0127/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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