Green Dam Youth Escort version 3.17 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when processing overly long URLs. The flaw resides in the URL filtering component, which fails to properly validate input length before copying user-supplied data into a fixed-size buffer. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted webpage containing a long URL, resulting in arbitrary code execution.
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/green-dam-url-processing-buffer-overflow
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8969
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8938
https://web.archive.org/web/20110426190759/http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/pub/gd/
Published: 2025-08-30
Updated: 2025-08-30
Base Score: 8.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P
Severity: High
Base Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: High
Base Score: 8.6
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Severity: High
EPSS: 0.00338