A vulnerability has been identified in AMX VNC ActiveX control, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by buffer overflow errors in the "AmxVnc.dll" modules when processing overly long properties (e.g ."Password"), which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.

Affected Products

AMX VNC ActiveX Control version 1.0.13.0 and prior

Solution

Set a kill bit for the CLSID {6318EFFA-BE57-49EE-830C-C5E1ABD9ECCB}.

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2387

Credits

Vulnerability reported by rgod.

Changelog

2007-06-29 : Initial release

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