McAfee NeoTrace ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	21697
Class:	Boundary Condition Error
CVE:	CVE-2006-6707
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Dec 21 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 06 2016 01:33PM
Credit:	Parvez Anwar reported this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	McAfee NeoTrace Professional 3.25 McAfee NeoTrace Express 3.25
Not Vulnerable:

McAfee NeoTrace ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The NeoTraceExplorer.NeoTraceLoader ActiveX control shipped with NeoTrace 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.

NeoTrace Express 3.25 and NeoTrace Professional 3.25 are vulnerable to this issue.

McAfee NeoTrace ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

UPDATE: Core Security Technologies has developed a working commercial exploit for its CORE IMPACT product. This exploit is not otherwise publicly available or known to be circulating in the wild.

The following exploit code is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/21697.html

McAfee NeoTrace ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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

McAfee NeoTrace ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

References:

• NeoTrace Express 3.25 (McAfee)
  
• NeoTrace Pro 3.25 (McAfee)