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TITLE:
GE Intelligent Platforms Multiple Products KeyHelp ActiveX Control
Two Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49728

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-06-29

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DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in multiple GE Intelligent
Platforms products, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.

1) The application bundles a vulnerable version of the KeyHelp
ActiveX control.

For more information:
SA36905

2) An error in the KeyHelp ActiveX control (KeyHelp.ocx) can be
exploited to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the
currently logged-on user.

The vulnerabilities are reported in the following products:
* Proficy Historian versions 4.5, 4.0, 3.5, and 3.1
* Proficy HMI/SCADA – iFIX versions 5.1 and 5.0
* Proficy Pulse version 1.0
* Proficy Batch Execution version 5.6
* SI7 I/O Driver versions 7.20 through 7.42

SOLUTION:
Apply patch (please see the vendor's advisory for more information).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
2) The vendor credits Andrea Micalizzi aka rgod via ZDI.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
GE:
http://support.ge-ip.com/support/index?page=kbchannel&id=S:KB14863
http://support.ge-ip.com/support/resources/sites/GE_FANUC_SUPPORT/content/live/KB/14000/KB14863/en_US/GEIP12-04%20Security%20Advisory%20-%20Proficy%20HTML%20Help.pdf

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