Secunia Research: Lateral Arts Photobox uploader ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow

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                 Secunia Research 02/12/2009

  - Lateral Arts uploader ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow -

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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

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1) Affected Software

• Lateral Arts Photobox uploader ActiveX Control 2.2.0.6

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System compromise
Where: Remote

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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.

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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.

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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.

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6) Credits

Discovered by Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

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7) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2009-1567 for the vulnerability.

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9) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-41/

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