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Secunia Research 02/12/2009
- Lateral Arts uploader ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Description of Vulnerability.........................................3
Solution.............................................................4
Time Table...........................................................5
Credits..............................................................6
References...........................................................7
About Secunia........................................................8
Verification.........................................................9
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1) Affected Software
* Lateral Arts Photobox uploader ActiveX Control 2.2.0.6
NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System compromise
Where: Remote
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3) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Lateral Arts
Photobox uploader ActiveX Control, which can be exploited by
malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error when parsing URLs.
This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an
overly long string assigned to a number of properties (e.g. "LogURL",
"ConnectURL", "SkinURL", "AlbumCreateURL", "ErrorURL", and
"httpsinglehost").
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a
user e.g. visits a malicious website.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.2.0.6. Other versions may
also be affected.
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4) Solution
According to the vendor (Lateral Arts), the vulnerability is fixed
in version 1.3 of the upstream version.
No fixed version is available for the Photobox 2.x branch.
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5) Time Table
02/11/2009 - Vendor (Lateral Arts) notified.
02/11/2009 - Vendor response.
11/11/2009 - Status update requested.
11/11/2009 - Vendor response (customers contacted).
18/11/2009 - Status update requested.
18/11/2009 - Vendor response.
25/11/2009 - Disclosure postponed.
30/11/2009 - Vendor provides status update.
02/12/2009 - Public disclosure.
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6) Credits
Discovered by Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.
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7) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2009-1567 for the vulnerability.
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9) Verification
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