CVE-1999-1147

Summary

CVE-1999-1147 is a buffer overflow vulnerability in Platinum Policy Compliance Manager (PCM) version 7.0. This issue arises due to a defect in the handling of long strings by smaxagent.exe, which listens on the Agent port (1827). An attacker can exploit this flaw by crafting a specially crafted input and sending it to the affected system. Successful exploitation leads to arbitrary code execution, potentially allowing the attacker to gain unauthorized access or install malware.

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