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Secunia Advisory SA29549

Macrovision InstallShield InstallScript One-Click Install ActiveX Control Code Execution
Secunia Advisory SA29549
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Release Date 2008-04-01
   
Popularity 13,023 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
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Macrovision InstallShield
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-5661 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Macrovision InstallShield, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the One-Click Install ActiveX control for InstallScript projects and can be exploited to e.g. download and load malicious libraries when a user is tricked into visiting a malicious website.

The vulnerability reportedly affects InstallShield 12 only.


Solution
Install Service Pack 2, apply patches, rebuild, and update HTML files (see vendor's advisory for details).
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Discovered by an anonymous researcher and reported via iDefense Labs.

Original Advisory
Macrovision:
http://knowledge.macrovision.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=Q113640

iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=649

Alternate/detailed remediation
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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