Secunia Security Advisory - Brett Moore has reported some vulnerabilities in DjVu Browser Plug-in, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
DjVu Browser Plug-in Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24149
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24149/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
DjVu Browser Plug-In 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/13493/
DESCRIPTION:
Brett Moore has reported some vulnerabilities in DjVu Browser
Plug-in, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors in various
functions (e.g. the "ExportImageAs()" method) and can be exploited to
cause buffer overflows.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.1.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Brett Moore, Security-Assessment.com.
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