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>> America Online SuperBuddy ActiveX Control "LinkSBIcons()" Code Execution Vulnerability

Title : America Online SuperBuddy ActiveX Control "LinkSBIcons()" Code Execution Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1184
CVE ID : CVE-2006-5820
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-04-02


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A vulnerability has been identified in AOL, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is due to a buffer overflow error in the SuperBuddy ActiveX control (sb.dll) that does not validate user-supplied arguments passed to the "LinkSBIcons()" method, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.

Affected Products

AOL versions 9.x

Solution

Log in to the AOL service to apply patches automatically :
http://free.aol.com/downloadaol

Or set a kill bit for the CLSID {189504B8-50D1-4AA8-B4D6-95C8F58A6414}.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1184
http://www.tippingpoint.com/security/advisories/TSRT-07-03.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Cody Pierce (TippingPoint Security Research Team)

ChangeLog

2007-04-02 : Initial release

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