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HHOpen ActiveX Control buffer overflow in OpenHelp method

2000-10-31T00:00:00

ID VU:29795
Type cert
Reporter CERT
Modified 2000-11-01T00:00:00

Description

Overview

Description

The HHOpen ActiveX control (hhopen.ocx) has a buffer overflow in the OpenHelp method. Because the control is marked safe-for-scripting, an attacker may be able to script this control and exploit the vulnerability when you visit a web page.

The classID for the vulnerable control is: {130D7743-5F5A-11D1-B676-00A0C9697233}.

Impact

An attacker may be able to exploit a buffer overflow in the HHOpen ActiveX control and execute arbitrary code on the system of the person visiting a malicious web page.

Solution

**Apply a patch

**Apply the patch provided by Microsoft in Security Bulletin MS99-037. This patch sets the kill bit which prevents the control from being loaded by Internet Explorer.

Disable "Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting"

In your Internet Explorer security settings, set this option to "disable" or "prompt".

Systems Affected

Vendor| Status| Date Notified| Date Updated
---|---|---|---
Microsoft| | -| 31 Oct 2000
If you are a vendor and your product is affected, let us know.

CVSS Metrics

Group | Score | Vector
---|---|---
Base | N/A | N/A
Temporal | N/A | N/A
Environmental | N/A | N/A

References

<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms99-037.asp>
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/fq99-037.asp>
<http://home.ntware.com/bugs/activex_bug__5.html>

Credit

This document was written by Cory F Cohen.

Other Information

CVE IDs: Unknown
Date Public: 10 Sep 99
Date First Published: 31 Oct 2000
Date Last Updated: 01 Nov 2000
Severity Metric: 12.66
Document Revision: 8

JSON Vulners Source

Initial Source

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