Secunia Advisory SA41140

Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 ActiveX Control Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA41140
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Release Date 2010-08-26
   
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010
Trend Micro UfProxyBrowserCtrl ActiveX Control

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description
A vulnerability has been reported in Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the "extSetOwner()" method of the UfProxyBrowserCtrl ActiveX control (UfPBCtrl.dll) not validating the value passed via the "varOwner" argument and using it as a pointer.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution
Apply hotfix (please see the vendor's advisory for details).

Provided and/or discovered by
Andrea Micalizzi aka rgod, reported via ZDI.

Original Advisory
ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-165/

Trend Micro:
http://esupport.trendmicro.com/pages/Hot-Fix-UfPBCtrldll-is-vulnerable-to-remote-attackers.aspx

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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Subject: Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2010 ActiveX Control Vulnerability
 
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