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>> Microsoft HTML Help Workshop Multiple File Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Title : Microsoft HTML Help Workshop Multiple File Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0446
CVE ID : CVE-2006-0564
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-02-06


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Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in Microsoft HTML Help Workshop, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. These issues are due to buffer overflow errors when processing a specially crafted ".hhp", ".cnt" or ".hpj" file, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system by convincing a user to open a malicious file.

Affected Products

Microsoft HTML Help Workshop version 4.74.8702.0 and prior

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0446
http://users.pandora.be/bratax/advisories/b008.html
http://eagle.blacksecurity.org/stuff/unl0ck/adv/55k700106.txt
http://eagle.blacksecurity.org/stuff/unl0ck/adv/55k700206.txt

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by bratax, darkeagle, k3xji and porkythepig

ChangeLog

2006-02-06 : Initial release
2007-01-20 : Updated Description

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