Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0 - Help Facility ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5874/info The ActiveX control that provides much of the functionality for the Windows Help Center contains an unchecked buffer. Successful exploitation could result in execution of arbitrary code in the security context of the current user. / By...

Thor Larholm security advisory TL#004

Thor Larholm security advisory TL004 Topic: Windows Help buffer overflow Discovery date: 31 July 2002 Affected applications Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Terminal Server Edition...

Buffer Overflow in IE/Outlook HTML Help

NGSSoftware Insight Security Research Advisory Name: Windows Help System Buffer Overflow Systems: Windows XP,2000,NT,ME and 98 Severity: High Risk Category: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Vendor URL: http://www.microsoft.com/ Author: David Litchfield [email protected] Advisory URL:...

CVE-1999-0975

The Windows help system can allow a local user to execute commands as another user by editing a table of contents metafile with a .CNT extension and modifying the topic action to include the commands to be executed when the .hlp file is accessed...

CVE-1999-0975

The Windows help system can allow a local user to execute commands as another user by editing a table of contents metafile with a .CNT extension and modifying the topic action to include the commands to be executed when the .hlp file is accessed...

Microsoft Windows 9598NT 4.0 - Help File Backdoor

Microsoft Windows 9598NT 4.0 - Help File Backdoor source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/868/info The help files for the Windows Help system .cnt, .hlp can be edited so that they run an arbitrary executable when selected by a user. The executable will run at the privelege level of the user. Th...