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McAfee SecurityCenter Subscription Manager ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow
Secunia Advisory: SA25173
Release Date: 2007-05-09
Last Update: 2007-05-10
Popularity: 10,935 views

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

Software:McAfee AntiSpyware 6.x
McAfee Internet Security Suite 2005
McAfee Internet Security Suite 2006
McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007
McAfee PC Protection Plus 2007
McAfee Personal Firewall Plus 7.x/2006
McAfee Privacy Service 6.x
McAfee QuickClean 4.x
McAfee QuickClean 5.x
McAfee QuickClean 6.x
McAfee SecurityCenter 4.x
McAfee SecurityCenter 6.x
McAfee SecurityCenter 7.x
McAfee SpamKiller 5.x
McAfee SpamKiller 6.x
McAfee SpamKiller 7.x
McAfee Total Protection 2007
McAfee VirusScan 10.x/2006
McAfee VirusScan 8.x/2004
McAfee VirusScan 9.x/2005
McAfee VirusScan Plus 2007
McAfee VirusScan Professional 8.x
McAfee Wireless Home Network Security 2006

Binary Analysis: BA99 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in various McAfee products, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the SecurityCenter Subscription Manager ActiveX control (McSubMgr.dll) when handling the "IsOldAppInstalled()" method. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted argument passed to the said method.

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

The vulnerability affects versions prior to 7.2.147 and 6.0.25.

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