HTTP: IncrediMail IMMenuShellExt ActiveX Buffer Overflow

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability in IncrediMail IMMenuShellExt ActiveX Control. An attacker can create malicious Web pages containing dangerous ActiveX calls, which if access by a victim, allows the attacker to gain control of the victim's client browser.

Extended Description

IncrediMail is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently check boundaries of user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer. An attacker may exploit this issue by enticing victims into opening a malicious webpage or HTML email that invokes the affected control. Successful exploits will corrupt process memory, allowing attacker-supplied arbitrary code to run in the context of the client application using the affected ActiveX control.

Affected Products

Incredimail_ltd. incredimail

References

BugTraq: 23674

CVE: CVE-2007-1683

URL: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/906777 http://www.incredimail.com/english/index.html

Short Name

HTTP:STC:CLSID:ACTIVEX:INC-AX

Severity

Minor

Recommended

False

Recommended Action

Drop

HTTP: IncrediMail IMMenuShellExt ActiveX Buffer Overflow

Extended Description

Affected Products

References

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