CVE-2016-4289

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2016-4289 · Published 29/10/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-4289 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting gmer (gmer).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.58%, higher than 48.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gmer gmer	`= 2.1.19357`	No fix yet

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.

References

talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0127 · Exploit

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