medium4.2
CVE-2023-42757
Process Explorer before 17.04 allows attackers to make it functionally unavailable (a denial of service for analysis) by renaming an executable file to a new e…
Impact
Process Explorer before 17.04 allows attackers to make it functionally unavailable (a denial of service for analysis) by renaming an executable file to a new extensionless 255-character name and launching it with NtCreateUserProcess. This can occur through an issue in wcscat_s error handling.
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|
| Process Explorer | before 17.04 |
Versions were read from the advisory text. No structured product data has been published for this record yet.
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://github.com/SafeBreach-Labs/MagicDot
- https://www.blackhat.com/asia-24/briefings/schedule/#magicdot-a-hackers-magic-show-of-disappearing-dots-and-spaces-36561
- https://www.safebreach.com/blog/magicdot-a-hackers-magic-show-of-disappearing-dots-and-spaces/
- https://github.com/SafeBreach-Labs/MagicDot
- https://www.blackhat.com/asia-24/briefings/schedule/#magicdot-a-hackers-magic-show-of-disappearing-dots-and-spaces-36561
- https://www.safebreach.com/blog/magicdot-a-hackers-magic-show-of-disappearing-dots-and-spaces/