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    AnNoText Third-Party ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow

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Title: AnNoText Third-Party ActiveX Control Buffer
Overflow
Severity: Critical
Advisory ID: NSOADV-2010-008
Found Date: 18.03.2010
Date Reported: 25.03.2010
Release Date: 11.06.2010
Author: Nikolas Sotiriu
Mail: nso-research at sotiriu.de
Website: http://sotiriu.de/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/nsoresearch
Advisory-URL: http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2010-008.txt
Vendor: AnNoText (http://www.annotext.de/)
Affected Products: ADVOAkte 17 Build 4.8.0.116 Patchlevel 034
Affected Component: KEYHELPLib ActiveX Control V.1.1.2200.0
Remote Exploitable: Yes
Local Exploitable: No
Patch Status: unknown (No response from vendor)
Discovered by: Nikolas Sotiriu
Disclosure Policy: http://sotiriu.de/policy.html
Thanks to: Thierry Zoller: For the permission to use his
Policy

Background:

AnNoText is a German Company, which makes Software for lawyers.

Description:

During the installation of the ADVOAkte an ActiveX Control will be
installed (keyhelp.ocx), in which multiple functions are vulnerable to a
buffer oveflow bugs, which could lead to a remote code execution.

Registered Classes:
±-----------------

Name: KeyPopup Class
Vendor: KeyWorks Software
Type: ActiveX-Control
Version: 1.1.2200.0
GUID: {1E57C6C4-B069-11D3-8D43-00104B138C8C}
File: keyhelp.ocx
Folder: C:\WINDOWS\system32\
Safe for Script: True
Safe for Init: False

Name: KeyScript Class
Vendor: KeyWorks Software
Type: ActiveX-Control
Version: 1.1.2200.0
GUID: {45E66957-2932-432A-A156-31503DF0A681}
File: keyhelp.ocx
Folder: C:\WINDOWS\system32\
Safe for Script: True
Safe for Init: False

Name: KeyHelp Embedded Window
Vendor: KeyWorks Software
Type: ActiveX-Control
Version: 1.1.2200.0
GUID: {B7ECFD41-BE62-11D2-B9A8-00104B138C8C}
File: keyhelp.ocx
Folder: C:\WINDOWS\system32\
Safe for Script: True
Safe for Init: True

Proof of Concept :

http://sotiriu.de/software/NSOPOC-2010-008.zip

(coming soon)

Solution:

Disable the vulnerable ActiveX Control by setting the kill bit for the
following CLSID:

{1E57C6C4-B069-11D3-8D43-00104B138C8C}
{45E66957-2932-432A-A156-31503DF0A681}
{B7ECFD41-BE62-11D2-B9A8-00104B138C8C}

Save the following text as a .REG file and imported to set the kill bit
for this controls:

±-------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX
Compatibility\{1E57C6C4-B069-11D3-8D43-00104B138C8C}]
"Compatibility Flags"=dword:00000400

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX
Compatibility\{45E66957-2932-432A-A156-31503DF0A681}]
"Compatibility Flags"=dword:00000400

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX
Compatibility\{B7ECFD41-BE62-11D2-B9A8-00104B138C8C}]
"Compatibility Flags"=dword:00000400
±-------------------------------------

More information about how to set the kill bit is available in Microsoft
Support Document 240797 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240797).

Disclosure Timeline (YYYY/MM/DD):

2010.03.18: Vulnerability found.
2010.03.25: Initial contact by support email address.
2010.03.29: Second contact by support, info and vertrieb (sales) email
address. Sent the Notification and Disclosure Policy and
the release date (2010.04.08).
2010.03.29: Initial Vendor response.
2010.03.30: Sent PoC, Advisory, Disclosure policy and planned disclosure
date (2010.04.08) to Vendor
2010.04.08: Ask for a status update, because the planned release date is
2010.04.08.
[-] No Response
2010.04.12: Set Release Date to 2010.04.15.
2010.04.08: Ask for a status update, because the planned release date is
2010.04.15.
[-] No Response
2010.04.15: Set Release Date to 2010.04.22.
2010.04.16: Vendor informed me that the vulnerability is a third party
issue and AnNoText contacted them.
2010.05.20: Asked if AnNoText already got a fixed version of the third
party component.
[-] No Response
2010.06.08: Informed AnNoText that the final release date is now the
2010.06.10
[-] No Response
2010.06.11: Release of this Advisory on my website
2010.06.19: Release of this Advisory on full-disc and Bugtraq