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SupportSoft ActiveX Controls Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA24251
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Release Date:
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2007-02-23
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Popularity:
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6,541 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | SupportSoft ActiveX Controls 5.x
SupportSoft ActiveX Controls 6.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-6490
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in various SupportSoft ActiveX controls, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the SmartIssue, RemoteAssist, and Probe ActiveX controls. These can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows via overly long arguments passed to various methods.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code but requires that the user is e.g. tricked into visiting a malicious web site.
The vulnerabilities reportedly affect versions 5.5, 5.6, and 6.x.
Solution:
Apply updates.
http://www.supportsoft.com/support/controls_update.asp
Provided and/or discovered by:
Independently discovered by:
* Mark Litchfield, NGSSoftware
* Peter Vreugdenhil, reported via iDefense Labs
* Will Dormann, CERT/CC
Original Advisory:
SupportSoft:
http://www.supportsoft.com/support/Security%20Advisory%202006-01-V2007.pdf
US-CERT VU#441785:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/441785
iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=478
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