BitDefender AV Logging Function Format String Vulnerability

BitDefender Antivirus is a proprietary antivirus product for multiple platforms.  A format string vulnerability affects the logging functionality of BitDefender Antivirus. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input prior to passing it as the format specifier to a formatted printing function.  A remote attacker may leverage this issue to write to arbitrary process memory, facilitating code execution, and privilege escalation.

This issue was reported in BitDefender versions 7.2, 8, and 9 for Windows. Other versions and platforms may also be affected.

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14968/discuss

Published Thu, Sep 29 2005 18:51 by donna
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Saturday, October 01, 2005 8:01 AM by donna

# re: BitDefender AV Logging Function Format String Vulnerability

Nice crash but i don't understand how to exploit this sort of vulnerability, can someone explain to me ?