CVE-2013-5447

medium

Published 2013-12-10 · 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

7.8

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in IBM Forms Viewer 4.x before 4.0.0.3 and 8.x before 8.0.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XFDL form with a long fontname value.

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-30789 local windows verified

Metasploit · 2014-01-07

IBM Forms Viewer - Unicode Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/fileformat/ibm_forms_viewer_fontname rank 300

IBM Forms Viewer Unicode Buffer Overflow

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ibm	forms_viewer	`4.0.0`
ibm	forms_viewer	`4.0.0.1`
ibm	forms_viewer	`4.0.0.2`
ibm	forms_viewer	`8.0.0`
ibm	forms_viewer	`8.0.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.