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Akamai Download Manager ActiveX Control Remote Command Execution Vulnerabilities

VUPEN ID VUPEN/ADV-2007-1415
CVE ID CVE-2007-1891 - CVE-2007-1892
 
CWE ID Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
CVSS V2 Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Rated as Critical 
Impact Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Authentication Level Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Access Vector Available in VUPEN VNS Customer Area
Release Date 2007-04-17
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Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Akamai Download Manager ActiveX Control, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These issues are caused by buffer overflow errors in "DownloadManagerV2.ocx" when processing malformed arguments passed to certain methods, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.

Affected Products

Akamai Download Manager ActiveX Control versions prior to 2.2.1.0

Solution 

Upgrade to version 2.2.1.0 :
http://dlm.tools.akamai.com/tools/upgrade.html

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1415
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=514

Credits 

Vulnerabilities reported by the vendor, iDefense Labs and Fortinet.

Changelog 

2007-04-17 : Initial release

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Monthly Statistics 

 

 VUPEN Security Advisories By Criticality: Aug 2010


  Critical Risk

: 0%

  High Risk
: 0%

  Moderate Risk
: 0%

  Low Risk
: 100%

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