BankTown ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:17815

Info

BankTown ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 17815
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 03 2006 12:00AM
Updated: May 08 2006 09:09PM
Credit: Park, Gyu Tae is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: BankTown BtCxCtl20Com ActiveX Control 1.5.2 .50209
BankTown BtCxCtl20Com ActiveX Control 1.4.2 .51817
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

BankTown ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BankTown ActiveX control is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability. The software fails to perform sufficient bounds-checking of user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer.

Invoking the object from a malicious website may trigger the condition. If the vulnerability were successfully exploited, this would corrupt process memory, resulting in arbitrary code execution. Arbitrary code would be executed in the context of the client application.

Exploit / POC

BankTown ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]

The following proof of concept is available:

Solution / Fix

BankTown ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor states that the vulnerable ActiveX control is no longer used. They have also released a patch to address this issue. Users of affected packages should contact the vendor for further information on obtaining and applying the fix.

References

BankTown ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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