CVE-2011-2591: Provideo Alarm Activex Control

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in the Provideo ActiveX controls allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted input fields, as demonstrated by (1) a long strIp argument to the voice method in 2way.dll in the alarm 1.0.3.1 ActiveX control, (2) a network response to AXPlayer.ocx in the GMAXPlayer 2.0.8.2 ActiveX control, the (3) UserName or (4) Password parameter to AXPlayer.ocx in the GMAXPlayer 2.0.8.2 ActiveX control, (5) a long Id parameter to the GetString method in PAxPlayer.ocx in the PAxPlayer 3.0.0.9 ActiveX control, or (6) a long strAdr parameter to the ConnectIPCam method in PAxPlayer.ocx in the PAxPlayer 3.0.0.9 ActiveX control.

Affected products

• Provideo Alarm Activex Control: version 3.0.0.9 only
• Provideo Gmax Activex Control: version 2.0.8.2 only
• Provideo Paxplayer Activex Control: version 3.0.0.9 only

Published 2011-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.