CVE-2019-25569 (GCVE-0-2019-25569)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-03-21 12:47
Modified
2026-03-23 20:09
Severity ?
6.9 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
RealTerm Serial Terminal 2.0.0.70 contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the Echo Port field that allows local attackers to crash the application by triggering a structured exception handler (SEH) chain corruption. Attackers can craft a malicious input string with 268 bytes of padding followed by SEH overwrite values and paste it into the Port field to cause denial of service.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Realterm RealTerm: Serial Terminal Version: 2.0.0.70
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