Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in SAP SAPgui, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the EAI WebViewer3D ActiveX control (webviewer3d.dll) when processing malformed data passed to the "SaveViewToSessionFile()" 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

SAP SAPgui version 7.10 Patch Level 8 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to SAPgui version 7.10 Patch Level 9 :
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1153794

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0892
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/985449

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Will Dormann (CERT/CC).

ChangeLog

2009-03-31 : Initial release

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