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...

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...

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 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 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 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...

Inside Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Revenge of the ActiveX Controls

Microsoft has released nine bulletins today, five of them Critical, four of them Important. The bulletins cover a gamut of affected products – almost everything in your enterprise will need to be patched today with the exception of Internet Explorer. No IE patches this month! The majority of...

US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-209A -- Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Active Template Library (ATL) Vulnerabilities

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-209A Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Active Template Library ATL Vulnerabilities Original release date: July 28, 2009 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Microsoft...

ActiveX controls built with Microsoft ATL fail to properly handle initialization data

Overview ActiveX controls that are built using a Microsoft ATL template may fail to properly handle initialization data, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft Active Template Library ATL is a set of C++ classes...

Microsoft Office Web Components OWC.Spreadsheet Evaluate method vulnerability

Added: 07/14/2009 CVE: CVE-2009-1136 BID: 35642 OSVDB: 55806 Background Microsoft Office Web Components OWC are a group of OLE classes implemented as ActiveX controls. Problem A memory corruption vulnerability allows command execution when a web page passes a specially crafted parameter to the...

Threatpost News Wrap #5: Microsoft Vulnerabilities, DDoS Attacks

Threatpost editors Dennis Fisher and Ryan Naraine discuss the recent vulnerabilities in ActiveX controls, Microsoft’s slow response to the video control flaw and the slew of DDoS attacks against U.S. government and commercial sites. Download SHOW NOTES: MyDoom DDoS Attacks Likely Work of...