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CVE-2016-0034

CVE-2016-0034

CVSS 8.8 HIGHEPSS 69.7%● KEV
In short

Microsoft Silverlight 5 has a flaw in how it processes certain data from websites, allowing attackers to run malicious code or crash the application through a specially crafted web page.

Technical detail

Silverlight 5 mishandles negative offsets during decoding operations, enabling remote code execution or denial of service via object-header corruption. Attack vector is network-based through a malicious web site; no user interaction beyond visiting the site is required. Impact includes arbitrary code execution in the Silverlight runtime context.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
Microsoft Silverlight 5 before 5.1.41212.0 mishandles negative offsets during decoding, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (object-header corruption) via a crafted web site, aka "Silverlight Runtime Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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