>> British Telecommunications ActiveX Controls Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Title : British Telecommunications ActiveX Controls Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1979 CVE ID : CVE-2007-2982 - CVE-2007-2983
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-05-30
Technical Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in British Telecommunications Business Connect webhelper and Consumer webhelper ActiveX controls, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. These issues are caused by buffer overflow errors in the "btbconnectwebcontrol.dll" and "btwebcontrol.dll" modules 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.
