Title: MS Visual Studio RAD Support Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: CRITICAL
Description:
FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) ships with Microsoft Office 2000 and Office XP. FPSE are components that run on IIS servers and are used for the development of websites via FrontPage and Visual InterDev.
Visual InterDev is a member of the Visual Studio web development tools, and is used to design web applications that bring together web content, database resources and various programs. A subcomponent of FPSE called Visual InterDev RAD Remote Deployment Support, enables the Visual InterDev developer to easily register COM objects on a web server.
Due to an unchecked buffer in 'fp30reg.dll' of Visual InterDev RAD Remote Deployment Support, a user could execute arbitrary commands on a target host. If the host is running IIS 5.0, the commands could be executed in the context of IWAM_machinename. A host running IIS 4.0, could allow the execution of arbitrary commands in the SYSTEM context.
The problem lies in the section of code which specifically processes COM object register requests (fp30reg.dll). If a specially crafted request composed of 258 bytes is sent to a server with RAD Remote Deployment Support installed, the buffer could overrun and allow the execution of arbitrary code.
It should be noted that Visual Studio RAD Deployment Support must be manually installed and configured by a user. It is not installed by default.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a complete compromise of the host.
Affected Products:
- Avaya DefinityOne Media Servers
- Avaya IP600 Media Servers
- Avaya S3400 Message Application Server
- Avaya S8100 Media Servers
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6a
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6a
References:
- Microsoft: FPSE: Potential Buffer Overrun Vulnerability in Visual Studio RAD (Remote Applic
- Microsoft: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-035
- Nsfocus: NSFOCUS Security Advisory(SA2001-03)
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