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Microsoft Malware Protection Engine PDF File Parsing Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA24146  
Release Date: 2007-02-13
Last Update: 2007-02-20

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

OS:Microsoft Windows Vista

Software:Microsoft Antigen 9.x
Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint
Microsoft Windows Defender
Microsoft Windows Live OneCare

CVE reference:CVE-2006-5270 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
IBM X-Force has reported a vulnerability in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error when parsing PDF (Portable Document Format) files. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow when a specially crafted PDF file is scanned.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

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Solution:
Apply the latest Microsoft Malware Protection Engine update.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Alex Wheeler and Neel Mehta, IBM X-Force.

Changelog:
2007-02-16: Added additional information from IBM X-Force.
2007-02-20: Added link to US-CERT.

Original Advisory:
MS07-010 (KB932135):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-010.mspx

IBM X-Force:
http://www.iss.net/threats/255.html

Other References:
US-CERT VU#511577:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/511577



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