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Secunia Advisory SA29109

Rising Online Virus Scanner Web Scan ActiveX Control "UpdateEngine()" Insecure Method
Secunia Advisory SA29109
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2008-02-26
Last Update 2008-03-05
   
Popularity 10,295 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Software:
Rising Online Virus Scanner

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-1116 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

John Smith has discovered a vulnerability in Rising Online Virus Scanner, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the Rising Web Scan Object ActiveX control (OL2005.dll) including the insecure "UpdateEngine()" method. This can be exploited to download and load a malicious library on a user's system.

The vulnerability is confirmed in OL2005.dll version 18.0.0.7. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Update to the latest version.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
John Smith

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/5188

Alternate/detailed remediation
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com

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