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OfficeScan Corporate Edition "ATXCONSOLE.OCX" Format String Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA22224  
Release Date: 2006-10-02
Last Update: 2006-10-12

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Trend Micro OfficeScan Corporate Edition 7.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-5157 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Trend Micro OfficeScan Corporate Edition, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error within the "ATXCONSOLE.OCX" ActiveX Control. This can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted string back to the Management Console's Remote Client Install name search.

The vulnerability has been reported in Trend Micro OfficeScan Corporate Edition 7.3. Other versions may also be affected.

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Solution:
Reportedly, this has been fixed in OfficeScan Corporate Edition 7.3 Patch 1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Deral Heiland, Layered Defense

Changelog:
2006-10-05: Added CVE reference.
2006-10-12: Added US-CERT reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.layereddefense.com/TREND01OCT.html

Other References:
US-CERT VU#788860:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/788860



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8 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Trend Micro OfficeScan CGI Module and Policy Server Buffer Overflows
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3. Trend Micro OfficeScan CGI Modules Buffer Overflow and Authentication Bypass
4. Trend Micro Products UPX Processing Denial of Service
5. Trend Micro OfficeScan Client ActiveX Control Buffer Overflows
6. Trend Micro Products UPX Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
7. Trend Micro Products RAR Processing Denial Of Service
8. Trend Micro OfficeScan Client Removal and Arbitrary File Deletion


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