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Cisco unveils LabVIEW code execution flaw that won’t be patched (Help Net Security)
2017-08-30 17:16

LabVIEW, the widely used system design and development platform developed by National Instruments, sports a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution. LabVIEW is commonly used for building data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation systems on a variety of operating systems: Windows, macOS, Linux and Unix. The vulnerability (CVE-2017-2779) The vulnerability was discovered by Cory Duplantis of Cisco Talos earlier this year, and reported to the company. It can be triggered by … More →


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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2017-09-05 CVE-2017-2779 Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in NI Labview
An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in the RSRC segment parsing functionality of LabVIEW 2017, LabVIEW 2016, LabVIEW 2015, and LabVIEW 2014.
local
low complexity
ni CWE-787
7.8

Related vendor

VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Cisco 2046 21 1773 1669 288 3751