HP Instant Support ActiveX Control Driver Check Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:24730

Info

HP Instant Support ActiveX Control Driver Check Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 24730
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2007-3554
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 01 2007 12:00AM
Updated: May 07 2015 05:37PM
Credit: John Heasman of NGSSoftware is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: HP Instant Support 0
Not Vulnerable: HP Instant Support 1.5 3

Discussion

HP Instant Support ActiveX Control Driver Check Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

HP Instant Support 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.

Exploit / POC

HP Instant Support ActiveX Control Driver Check Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following exploit code is available:

Solution / Fix

HP Instant Support ActiveX Control Driver Check Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor released updates to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.

References

HP Instant Support ActiveX Control Driver Check Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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