---------------------------------------------------------------------- Frost & Sullivan 2011 Report: Secunia Vulnerability Research \"Frost & Sullivan believes that Secunia continues to be a major player in the vulnerability research market due to its diversity of products that provide best-in-class coverage, quality, and usability.\" This is just one of the key factors that influenced Frost & Sullivan to select Secunia over other companies. Read the report here: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/vim/fs_request_2011/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: ALZip MIM File Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA45108 VERIFY ADVISORY: Secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/45108/ Customer Area (Credentials Required) https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=45108 RELEASE DATE: 2011-06-30 DISCUSS ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/45108/#comments AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Last Update * Popularity * Comments * Criticality Level * Impact * Where * Solution Status * Operating System / Software * CVE Reference(s) http://secunia.com/advisories/45108/ ONLY AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Authentication Level * Report Reliability * Secunia PoC * Secunia Analysis * Systems Affected * Approve Distribution * Remediation Status * Secunia CVSS Score * CVSS https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=45108 ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI: * AUTOMATED SCANNING http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/ DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in ALZip, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing MIM files and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted file. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code. The vulnerability is reported in version 8.21 published prior to June 29th, 2011. SOLUTION: Update to version 8.21 published after June 29th, 2011. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: JVN credits Takahiko Funakubo, Fourteenforty Research Institute ORIGINAL ADVISORY: ALZip (Japanese): http://www.altools.jp/ETC/NEWS.aspx?mid=231&vidx=118 JVN (English): http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN01547302/index.html http://jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000048.html JVN (Japanese): http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2011/JVNDB-2011-000048.html OTHER REFERENCES: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/ DEEP LINKS: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/ EXTENDED DESCRIPTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/ EXTENDED SOLUTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/ EXPLOIT: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help private users keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/advisories/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------