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Windows HTML Help ActiveX Control Memory Corruption
Secunia Advisory: SA20906
Release Date: 2006-07-04
Last Update: 2006-08-09
Popularity: 25,591 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the HTML Help ActiveX control (hhctrl.ocx) when handling the "Image" property. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by setting an overly long string multiple times for the property.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

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