America Online ICQ ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

BID:20930

Info

America Online ICQ ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 20930
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2006-5650
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Nov 06 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 19 2015 09:44AM
Credit: Peter Vreugdenhil is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: ICQ Inc. ICQ 5.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

America Online ICQ ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

The America Online ICQ ActiveX Control is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability.

An attacker could exploit this issue simply by sending a message to a victim ICQ user. Successful exploits could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code.

The ICQPhone.SipxPhoneManager ActiveX control with the following CLSID is affected:

54BDE6EC-F42F-4500-AC46-905177444300

Exploit / POC

America Online ICQ ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

The following exploit code is added;

Solution / Fix

America Online ICQ ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released a fix, which is automatically applied when connecting to the America Online ICQ service.

References

America Online ICQ ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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