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TITLE:
IBM Lotus Notes File Viewers Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44624

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-05-25

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DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM Lotus Notes, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An error within xlssr.dll when parsing a Binary File Format (BIFF)
record in an Excel spreadsheet can be exploited to cause a heap-based
buffer overflow.

2) An unspecified error within lzhsr.dll when parsing LZH file format
can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

3) An unspecified error within rtfsr.dll when parsing RTF file format
can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

4) An unspecified error within mw8sr.dll when parsing certain
Microsoft Office Documents can be exploited to cause a buffer
overflow.

5) An unspecified error within assr.dll when parsing Applix
Spreadsheets can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

6) An unspecified error within kpprzrdr.dll when parsing Lotus Notes
.prz file format can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

7) An unspecified error within kvarcve.dll when parsing Lotus Notes
.zip file format can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of
arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 8.0 and 8.5.

SOLUTION:
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Pablo Santamaria, Oren Isacson, and Nadia Rodriguez, Core Security
Technologies
2 - 7) The vendor credits iDefense Labs.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
IBM (PRAD8E3HKR, PRAD88MJ2W, PRAD8823JQ, PRAD8823ND, PRAD8823A7,
RAD8E3NKZ, PRAD8E3NSP):
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21500034

Core Security:
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/LotusNotes-XLS-viewer-heap-overflow

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