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>> Autodesk Design Review DWF Viewer File Creation Vulnerability

Title : Autodesk Design Review DWF Viewer File Creation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2704
CVE ID : CVE-2008-4471 - CVE-2008-4472
CWE ID : CWE-618
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-09-30


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A vulnerability has been identified in Autodesk Design Review, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by errors in the DWF Viewer ActiveX Control (AdView.dll) that does not restrict access to the "SaveAS()" and "ApplyPatch()" methods, which could be exploited by attackers to create malicious files on a vulnerable system and execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.

Affected Products

Autodesk Design Review 2009

Solution

Set a kill bit for the CLSID {A662DA7E-CCB7-4743-B71A-D817F6D575DF}.

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

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2704
http://retrogod.altervista.org/9sg_autodesk_revit_arch_2009_exploit.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Nine:Situations:Group::bruiser.

ChangeLog

2008-09-30 : Initial release

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