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>> IncrediMail IMMenuShellExt ActiveX Control Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
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Title : IncrediMail IMMenuShellExt ActiveX Control Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1551
CVE ID : CVE-2007-1683
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-04-27
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A vulnerability has been identified in IncrediMail, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the IMMenuShellExt ActiveX control (ImShExt.dll) when handling malformed arguments passed to the "DoWebMenuAction()" 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
IncrediMail version 5.50 and prior
Solution
Set a kill bit for the CLSID {F8984111-38B6-11D5-8725-0050DA2761C4}.
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1551
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/906777
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Will Dormann (CERT/CC)
ChangeLog
2007-04-27 : Initial release
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