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TITLE:
Oracle JInitiator "beans.ocx" ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow
Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26644

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26644/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Oracle JInitiator 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/7515/

DESCRIPTION:
Will Dormann has reported some vulnerabilities in the Oracle
JInitiator "beans.ocx" ActiveX control, which can be exploited by
malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors within the Oracle
JInitiator "beans.ocx" ActiveX control when handling certain
unspecified initialization parameters. This can be exploited to cause
stack-based buffer overflows by e.g. tricking a user into visiting a
malicious website.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.1.8.16 of Oracle
JInitiator. Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Set the kill-bit for the affected ActiveX control.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Will Dormann, CERT/CC.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
US-CERT VU#474433:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/474433

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