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>> Symantec Products SupportSoft ActiveX Controls Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Title : Symantec Products SupportSoft ActiveX Controls Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0704
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6490
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-02-23


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in various Symantec products, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These issues are due to buffer overflow error in third-party ActiveX controls, developed by SupportSoft. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0703

Affected Products

Symantec Automated Support Assistant
Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2006
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2006
Symantec Norton System Works 2006

Solution

Apply patches :
https://www-secure.symantec.com/techsupp/asa/install.jsp

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0704
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2007.02.22.html

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Will Dormann (CERT/CC), Mark Litchfield (NGSSoftware), and Peter Vreugdenhil (via iDefense Labs)

ChangeLog

2007-02-23 : Initial release

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