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Secunia Advisory SA24714

America Online SuperBuddy ActiveX Control "LinkSBIcons()" Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA24714
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Release Date 2007-04-02
Last Update 2007-04-06
   
Popularity 9,362 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Secunia PoC Available in Customer Area
Secunia analysis Available in Customer Area
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 9.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-5820 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

TippingPoint Security Research Team has discovered a vulnerability in America Online, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the SuperBuddy ActiveX control (sb.dll) accepting a user-controlled object pointer as argument to the "LinkSBIcons()" method.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when visiting a malicious website.

The vulnerability is confirmed in AOL 9.0 Revision 4156.910. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Updates are automatically available for AOL 9.x users when logging into the AOL service.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Cody Pierce, TippingPoint Security Research Team.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
TippingPoint:
http://www.tippingpoint.com/security/advisories/TSRT-07-03.html

Other references
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Alternate/detailed remediation
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Deep Links
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