HP Mercury Quality Center ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:23239

Info

HP Mercury Quality Center ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 23239
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2007-1819
CVE-2008-1474
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 01 2007 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 07 2008 03:22AM
Credit: Will Dormann of CERT/CC, Eric Detoisien and Titon& Ri0tare are credited with discovering this issue.
Vulnerable: HP Mercury Quality Center 9.0
HP Mercury Quality Center 8.2.SP1
Gentoo www-apps/roundup 1.4.4
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

HP Mercury Quality Center ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

HP Mercury Quality Center ActiveX control is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to adequately bounds-check user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer.

Exploiting this issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of applications using the affected ActiveX control and possibly to compromise affected computers.

HP Mercury Quality Center 8.2 SP1 and 9.0 are vulnerable to this issue.

Exploit / POC

HP Mercury Quality Center ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Sample exploit code has been provided:

Solution / Fix

HP Mercury Quality Center ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released updates. Please see the references for more information.


HP Mercury Quality Center 8.2.SP1

HP Mercury Quality Center 9.0

References

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