VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-0679

critical
Published 2010-02-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the HyleosChemView.HLChemView ActiveX control (HyleosChemView.ocx) in Hyleos ChemView 1.9.5.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large number of white space characters in the filename argument to the (1) SaveasMolFile and (2) ReadMolFile methods.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-16500 remote windows verified
Metasploit · 2010-07-27

Hyleos ChemView - ActiveX Control Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-11422 remote windows
Dz_attacker · 2010-02-12

Hyleos ChemView 1.9.5.1 - ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/browser/hyleos_chemviewx_activex rank 400
Hyleos ChemView ActiveX Control Stack Buffer Overflow
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
hyleoschemview1.9.5.1

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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