CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2019-3712 — Dell Windows Embedded Standard Wyse Device Agent security vulnerability
Dell WES Wyse Device Agent versions prior to 14.1.2.9 and Dell Wyse ThinLinux HAgent versions prior to 5.4.55 00.10 contain a buffer overflow vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system with privileges of the FTP client by sending specially crafted input data to the affected system. The FTP code that contained the vulnerability has been removed.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 8.8 (3.0)
- Published
- 2019-03-07
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- windows/system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Affected products
- dell / windows_embedded_standard_wyse_device_agent
- dell / wyse_thinlinux_hagent
Matched remediation archetype
Buffer bounds, memory safety, and memory corruption
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Check exposure
- Identify affected native-code versions, build flags, architectures, parsers, codecs, drivers, and input paths in all shipped artifacts.
- Determine whether untrusted data reaches the affected routine and the process privilege, sandbox, and network exposure.
- Confirm statically linked, vendored, firmware, and platform-provided copies, not only package-manager records.
Remediate safely
- Apply the maintained upstream correction or replace the affected component, then rebuild every dependent artifact from clean inputs.
- Adopt bounds-checked interfaces, validated sizes and integer conversions, clear ownership, and memory-safe components where practical.
- Enable supported compiler and runtime hardening and add sanitized tests and fuzz regression seeds derived from non-weaponized fixtures.
Authoritative sources
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