Google Researcher Ships Exploit to Defeat ASLR+DEP

A prominent security researcher has released an exploit that uses a new technique to defeat ALSR + DEP on Microsoft’s Windows operating system. The exploit, released by Google security researcher “SkyLined,” uses the ret-into-libc technique to bypass DEP Data Execution Prevention and launch code...

Internet Explorer Install Engine Buffer Overflow (CVE-2004-0216)

Microsoft Internet Explorer is a popular web browser bundled with the Microsoft Windows operating system. The browser is capable of communicating with HTTP and HTTPS compliant servers. The browser also has the capability to launch locally-installed libraries, or ActiveX controls, embedded in web...

Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML object memory corruption vulnerability

Overview An invalid pointer reference within Microsoft Internet Explorer may lead to execution of arbitrary code. Description Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a memory corruption vulnerability, which can result in an invalid pointer being accessed after an object is incorrectly initialized or...

Novell iPrint Client ActiveX Control Multiple Buffer Overflows (CVE-2008-2431)

Novell iPrint Client is an application that allows users to install and manage printers, or submit print job from a web browser. Novell iPrint Client is bundled with a set of ActiveX controls that implement various functions. There exist multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Novell iPrint...

Special ActiveX repurposing attacks tips and techniques-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Copyright c 2 0 0 9 Czy Invicta Hack01@Live! cn All rights reserved. == 0x00 Foreword In this article, I am not against ActiveX controls the basic attack scenarios will be discussed. I'm here to be discussed is the use of a lot of interesting tricks and techniques to the development and utilizati...

Internet Explorer COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption (CVE-2006-4495)

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows HTML documents to embed ActiveX controls for the authoring of dynamic web content. ActiveX controls are based on Component Object Model COM technology. The invocation of an ActiveX control is performed by Internet Explorer by internally instantiating an object. ...

EasyMail SMTP ActiveX Control AddAttachment buffer overflow

Added: 12/10/2009 BID: 36440 OSVDB: 59939 Background QuikSoft EasyMail Objects is a set of ActiveX controls which provide e-mail functionality. QuikSoft EasyMail Objects is included with Oracle Document Capture among other products. Problem A stack buffer overflow vulnerability in the...

Office OCX Multiple ActiveX Controls OpenWebFile Arbitrary Program Execution

Office OCX provides multiple software products that parse various Microsoft Office documents. Some of these products include Word Viewer OCX, Excel Viewer OCX, PowerPoint Viewer OCX, and Office Viewer OCX. These products act as ActiveX document containers to create, open, edit, and print...

Microsoft XML Core Services Memory Corruption (MS07-042; CVE-2007-2223)

Microsoft Windows is shipped with an XML processing framework, named MSXML or Microsoft XML Core services. The framework is used by applications shipped with the operating system as well as third party applications. The most popular application using this framework is Internet Explorer, which can...

Internet Explorer DirectAnimation COM Object Memory Corruption (MS06-042; CVE-2006-3638)

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows HTML documents to embed ActiveX controls for the authoring of dynamic web content. ActiveX controls are based on Component Object Model COM technology. The invocation of an ActiveX control is performed by Internet Explorer by internally instantiating a COM objec...

Microsoft Design Tools msdds.dll Memory Corruption (MS05-052; CVE-2005-2127)

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows HTML documents to embed ActiveX controls for the authoring of dynamic web content. ActiveX controls are based on the Component Object Model COM technology. There exists a vulnerability in the Microsoft Design Tools Diagram Surface COM object, an object bundled...

MS09-060: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL) ActiveX Controls for Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (973965)

One or more ActiveX controls included in Microsoft Outlook or Visio and installed on the remote Windows host was compiled with a version of Microsoft Active Template Library ATL that is affected by potentially several vulnerabilities : - An issue in the ATL headers could allow an attacker to forc...

Microsoft ATL ActiveX Controls for MS Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (973965)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS09-060. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-055 - Critical Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (973525)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-060 - Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Active Template Library ATL ActiveX Controls for Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution 973965 Published: October 13, 2009 Version: 1.0 General Information Executive Summary This security update resolves...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-055 - Critical Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (973525)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-055 - Critical Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits 973525 Published: October 13, 2009 Version: 1.0 General Information Executive Summary This security update addresses a privately reported vulnerability that is common to multiple ActiveX controls and i...

Microsoft Outlook View ActiveX Controls Remote Code Execution (MS09-055; CVE-2009-2493)

ActiveX controls are reusable software components based on Microsoft Component Object Model COM. A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to an error in several Microsoft Outlook View ActiveX controls. To trigger this issue, ...

Microsoft Office Web Components OWC.Spreadsheet BorderAround vulnerability

Added: 08/24/2009 CVE: CVE-2009-2496 BID: 35991 OSVDB: 56915 Background Microsoft Office Web Components OWC are a group of OLE classes implemented as ActiveX controls. Problem A heap corruption vulnerability in the OWC10.Spreadsheet ActiveX control allows command execution when a user opens a web...

Microsoft Office Web Components OWC.Spreadsheet BorderAround vulnerability

Added: 08/24/2009 CVE: CVE-2009-2496 BID: 35991 OSVDB: 56915 Background Microsoft Office Web Components OWC are a group of OLE classes implemented as ActiveX controls. Problem A heap corruption vulnerability in the OWC10.Spreadsheet ActiveX control allows command execution when a user opens a web...

iDefense Security Advisory 08.11.09: Microsoft Office Web Components 2000 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

iDefense Security Advisory 08.11.09 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Aug 11, 2009 I. BACKGROUND Office Web Components is a group of ActiveX controls that can be used to view and edit Microsoft Office files such as spreadsheets and charts. It is commonly used to allow a user ...

Microsoft Office Web Components OWC.Spreadsheet.9 HTMLURL property overflow

Added: 08/14/2009 CVE: CVE-2009-1534 BID: 35992 OSVDB: 56916 Background Microsoft Office Web Components OWC are a group of OLE classes implemented as ActiveX controls. Problem A buffer overflow vulnerability in the OWC.Spreadsheet.9 ActiveX control allows command execution when a user loads a web...