====================================================================== Secunia Research 02/12/2009 - Lateral Arts uploader ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow - ====================================================================== Table of Contents Affected Software....................................................1 Severity.............................................................2 Description of Vulnerability.........................................3 Solution.............................................................4 Time Table...........................................................5 Credits..............................................................6 References...........................................................7 About Secunia........................................................8 Verification.........................................................9 ====================================================================== 1) Affected Software * Lateral Arts Photobox uploader ActiveX Control 2.2.0.6 NOTE: Other versions may also be affected. ====================================================================== 2) Severity Rating: Highly critical Impact: System compromise Where: Remote ====================================================================== 3) Description of Vulnerability Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Lateral Arts Photobox uploader ActiveX Control, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error when parsing URLs. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long string assigned to a number of properties (e.g. "LogURL", "ConnectURL", "SkinURL", "AlbumCreateURL", "ErrorURL", and "httpsinglehost"). Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a user e.g. visits a malicious website. The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.2.0.6. Other versions may also be affected. ====================================================================== 4) Solution According to the vendor (Lateral Arts), the vulnerability is fixed in version 1.3 of the upstream version. No fixed version is available for the Photobox 2.x branch. ====================================================================== 5) Time Table 02/11/2009 - Vendor (Lateral Arts) notified. 02/11/2009 - Vendor response. 11/11/2009 - Status update requested. 11/11/2009 - Vendor response (customers contacted). 18/11/2009 - Status update requested. 18/11/2009 - Vendor response. 25/11/2009 - Disclosure postponed. 30/11/2009 - Vendor provides status update. 02/12/2009 - Public disclosure. ====================================================================== 6) Credits Discovered by Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research. ====================================================================== 7) References The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned CVE-2009-1567 for the vulnerability. ====================================================================== 8) 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/ ====================================================================== 9) Verification Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-41/ Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ ======================================================================