Secunia Security Advisory - Will Dormann has reported some vulnerabilities in iPIX Image Well ActiveX control, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
iPIX Image Well ActiveX Control Unspecified Buffer Overflows
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24816
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24816/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
iPIX Image Well ActiveX Control
http://secunia.com/product/13882/
DESCRIPTION:
Will Dormann has reported some vulnerabilities in iPIX Image Well
ActiveX control, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors within the
iPIX Image Well ActiveX control (iPIX-ImageWell-ipix.dll) and can be
exploited to cause buffer overflows when a user visits a malicious
web site.
Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code.
SOLUTION:
Set the kill-bit on the affected ActiveX control.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Will Dormann, CERT/CC
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
US-CERT VU#958609:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/958609
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