====================================================================== Secunia Research 14/04/2010 - Visualization Library DAT File Parsing Vulnerabilities - ====================================================================== 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 ====================================================================== 1) Affected Software * Visualization Library 2009.08.812 NOTE: Other versions may also be affected. ====================================================================== 2) Severity Rating: Moderately Critical Impact: System Access Where: Remote ====================================================================== 3) Vendor's Description of Software "Visualization Library has been designed to be a generic, fine-grained platform, upon which highly-specialized 3D graphics applications can be effectively developed.". Product Link: http://www.visualizationlibrary.com/jetcms/ ====================================================================== 4) Description of Vulnerability Secunia Research has discovered some vulnerabilities in Visualization Library, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerabilities are caused by boundary errors within the "vl::loadDAT()" and "vl::isDAT()" functions in src/vl/vlDAT.cpp. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code by e.g. tricking a user into opening a specially crafted DAT file. ====================================================================== 5) Solution Do not process untrusted DAT files in an application using the library. ====================================================================== 6) Time Table 30/12/2009 - Vendor notified. 13/01/2010 - Vendor notified again. Vendor response. 12/02/2010 - Requested estimated released date of the fixed version. 14/04/2010 - Public disclosure. ====================================================================== 7) Credits Discovered by Secunia Research. ====================================================================== 8) References The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned CVE-2010-0994 for the vulnerabilities. ====================================================================== 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/ ====================================================================== 10) Verification Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-02/ Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ ======================================================================