====================================================================== Secunia Research 28/07/2010 - Autonomy KeyView wosr.dll Data Block Parsing Buffer Overflow - ====================================================================== 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 * Autonomy KeyView 10.4 and 10.9 NOTE: Other versions may also be affected. ====================================================================== 2) Severity Rating: Highly critical Impact: System access Where: From remote ====================================================================== 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 ====================================================================== 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 boundary error the WordPerfect 5.x reader (wosr.dll) when parsing data blocks and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted file. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code. ====================================================================== 5) Solution Apply patches available from the vendor. ====================================================================== 6) Time Table 16/03/2010 - Vendor notified. 12/04/2010 - Status update requested. 16/04/2010 - Vendor provides status update. 28/07/2010 - Public disclosure. ====================================================================== 7) Credits Discovered by Dyon Balding, Secunia Research. ====================================================================== 8) References The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned CVE-2010-0135 for the vulnerability. ====================================================================== 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/2010-31/ Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/ ======================================================================