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PMS 0.42 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying malicious values in the configuration file. Attackers can craft configuration files with oversized input that overflows the stack buffer and execute shell commands via return-oriented programming gadgets.
- Products
- pms
- Affected versions
- 0.42-1, 0.42-1.1, 0.42-1.1build1, 0.42-1.1build2, 0.42-1build1, 0.42-1build2, 0.42-1build3, 0.42-1build4, 0.42-2
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-25224
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
PMS 0.42 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows local unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying malicious values in the configuration file. Attackers can craft configuration files with oversized input that overflows the stack buffer and execute shell commands via return-oriented programming gadgets.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2018-25224
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Complete source record
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