CVE-2012-0188

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Zero Day Initiative Advisory 12-019

Posted Jan 31, 2012

Authored by Tipping Point | Site zerodayinitiative.com

Zero Day Initiative Advisory 12-019 - This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of IBM SPSS. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within SetLicenseInfoEx() method exposed by the mraboutb.dll ActiveX Control. String data supplied to the first parameter (strInstallDir) of SetLicenseInfoEx() is copied into a 256 byte global buffer without first checking the string length. This overflow can be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code on the target system.

tags | advisory, remote, overflow, arbitrary, activex

advisories | CVE-2012-0188

SHA-256 | 854bc2e262fff88ef741e78bf82fffb4832ad1b7eb87f4f13c662b94e8d6c14e

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