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>> TSC2 Help Desk CTab ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : TSC2 Help Desk CTab ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2009-0037
CVE ID : CVE-2008-4827
CWE ID : CWE-119
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2009-01-07
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A vulnerability has been identified in TSC2 Help Desk, 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 a buffer overflow error in the Tab ActiveX control (c1sizer.ocx) when adding tabs with overly long captions via the "AddTab()" method, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.
Affected Products
TSC2 Help Desk version 4.1.8 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0037
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-54/
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Carsten Eiram (Secunia Research).
ChangeLog
2009-01-07 : Initial release
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