Security Advisory SA36472 - Lotus Notes 6 Keyview XLS Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA36472

Lotus Notes 6 Keyview XLS Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA36472

Release Date

2009-08-25

Last Update

2009-08-26

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

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Solution Status

Unpatched

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Software:

IBM Lotus Notes 6.x

IBM Lotus Notes Client 6.x

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Description

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Keyview XLS viewer (xlssr.dll) and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted XLS attachment.

For more information:
SA36422

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution
Disable the affected viewer. Please see vendor's advisory for details.

Provided and/or discovered by
Joshua J. Drake, iDefense Labs

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Original Advisory
IBM:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21396492

iDefense:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=823

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