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vulnerability note CVE-2012-5416

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing: buffer overflow

Synthesis of the vulnerability

An attacker can generate a buffer overflow in Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing, in order to execute code.
Impacted products: Cisco Unified MeetingPlace.
Severity: 3/4.
Creation date: 31/10/2012.
Identifiers: BID-56349, CERTA-2012-AVI-615, cisco-sa-20121031-mp, CSCua66341, CVE-2012-5416, VIGILANCE-VUL-12104.

Description of the vulnerability

The Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing product uses form based on HTTP POST queries.

However, the size of HTTP POST parameters is not checked.

An attacker can therefore generate a buffer overflow in Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing, in order to execute code.
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