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Secunia Advisory SA30953

Microsoft Windows Explorer Saved Search Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA30953
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Release Date 2008-07-08
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately 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
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Operating System
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Vista
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-1435 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in Windows Explorer during the parsing of saved-search (.search-ms) files when saving them. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening and saving a specially crafted saved-search file.


Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory
MS08-038 (KB950582):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-038.mspx

Alternate/detailed remediation
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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