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Autonomy KeyView rtfsr.dll RTF Parsing Signedness Error

Autonomy KeyView rtfsr.dll RTF Parsing Signedness Error
Posted Jul 28, 2010
Authored by Dyon Balding | Site secunia.com

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Autonomy KeyView, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused by a signedness error when parsing the argument to the "\\ls" keyword within a list override table entry in RTF files. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted RTF file. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code. Autonomy KeyView versions 10.4 and 10.9 are affected.

tags | advisory, overflow, arbitrary
advisories | CVE-2010-0134
SHA-256 | 9f637d773e05147f5fddebca47d4f32eaa065525a4713e86117852b4fc62630c

Autonomy KeyView rtfsr.dll RTF Parsing Signedness Error

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Secunia Research 28/07/2010

- Autonomy KeyView rtfsr.dll RTF Parsing Signedness Error -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10

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1) Affected Software

* Autonomy KeyView 10.4 and 10.9

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

"KeyView IDOL Viewing SDK allows you to build applications with
high-fidelity viewing and printing capabilities for the word
processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphic, multimedia,
compression and encoding formats that contain the information your
end-users need to access.".

Product Link:
http://www.autonomy.com/content/Products/idol-modules-keyview-viewing
/index.en.html

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Autonomy KeyView,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable
system.

The vulnerability is caused by a signedness error when parsing the
argument to the "\ls" keyword within a list override table entry in
RTF files. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a
specially crafted RTF file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

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5) Solution

Apply patches available from the vendor.

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6) Time Table

15/03/2010 - Vendor notified.
15/03/2010 - Vendor response.
12/04/2010 - Status update requested.
16/04/2010 - Vendor provides status update.
28/07/2010 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits

Discovered by Dyon Balding, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2010-0134 for the vulnerability.

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9) About Secunia

Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate
customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence
relevant to their specific system configuration:

http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/

Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory
database as a service to the security community and private
individuals, who are interested in or concerned about IT-security.

http://secunia.com/advisories/

Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to
do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the
security and reliability of software in general:

http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. Check the URL below
to see currently vacant positions:

http://secunia.com/corporate/jobs/

Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories:

http://secunia.com/advisories/mailing_lists/

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10) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-27/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

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