Security Advisory SA36943 - FormMax Import File Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA36943

FormMax Import File Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA36943

Release Date

2009-10-21

Last Update

2009-11-09

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Unpatched

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Remediation status

Secunia VIM

Software:

FormMax 3.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2009-3790 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Parvez Anwar has discovered a vulnerability in FormMax, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing FormMax import files (".aim"). This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by tricking a user into importing a specially crafted ".aim" file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is confirmed in evaluation version 3.5. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Do not import untrusted ".aim" files.

Provided and/or discovered by
Parvez Anwar

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