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AnNoText Third-Party ActiveX Control file overwrite vulnerability
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Title: AnNoText Third-Party ActiveX Control file
overwrite vulnerability
Severity: Low
Advisory ID: NSOADV-2010-009
Found Date: 18.03.2010
Date Reported: 25.03.2010
Release Date: 11.06.2010
Author: Nikolas Sotiriu
Mail: nso-research at sotiriu.de
Website: http://sotiriu.de/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/nsoresearch
Advisory-URL: http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2010-009.txt
Vendor: AnNoText (http://www.annotext.de/)
Affected Products: ADVOMahn Edition 21
Affected Components IDAutomation Linear BarCode V.1.6.0.6
IDautomation PDF417 Barcode V.1.6.0.6
Remote Exploitable: Yes
Local Exploitable: No
Patch Status: unknown (No response from vendor)
Discovered by: Nikolas Sotiriu
Disclosure Policy: http://sotiriu.de/policy.html
Thanks to: Thierry Zoller: For the permission to use his
Policy
Background:
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AnNoText is a German Company, which makes Software for lawyers.
Description:
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During the installation of the ADVOMahn two ActiveX Control will be
installed (IDAutomationLinear6.dll and IDAutomationPDF417_6.dll), in
which the functions "SaveBarCode" and "SaveEnhWMF" can lead to a file
overwrite bug.
Controls:
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Name: IDAutomation Linear BarCode 1.606
Vendor: IDAutomation.com Inc.
Type: ActiveX-Control
Version: 1.6.0.6
GUID: {0C3874AA-AB39-4B5E-A768-45F3CE6C6819}
File: IDAutomationLinear6.dll
Folder: C:\WINDOWS\system32\
Safe for Script: True
Safe for Init: True
Name: IDautomation PDF417 Barcode
Vendor: IDAutomation.com Inc.
Type: ActiveX-Control
Version: 1.6.0.6
GUID: {E97EE6EB-7FBE-43B1-B6D8-C4D86C78C5A0}
File: IDAutomationPDF417_6.dll
Folder: C:\WINDOWS\system32\
Safe for Script: True
Safe for Init: True
Proof of Concept :
=================
http://sotiriu.de/software/NSOPOC-2010-009.zip
(coming soon)
Solution:
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Disable the vulnerable ActiveX Control by setting the kill bit for the
following CLSID:
{0C3874AA-AB39-4B5E-A768-45F3CE6C6819}
{E97EE6EB-7FBE-43B1-B6D8-C4D86C78C5A0}
Save the following text as a .REG file and imported to set the kill bit
for this controls:
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX
Compatibility\{0C3874AA-AB39-4B5E-A768-45F3CE6C6819}]
"Compatibility Flags"=dword:00000400
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX
Compatibility\{E97EE6EB-7FBE-43B1-B6D8-C4D86C78C5A0}]
"Compatibility Flags"=dword:00000400
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More information about how to set the kill bit is available in Microsoft
Support Document 240797 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240797).
Disclosure Timeline (YYYY/MM/DD):
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2010.03.18: Vulnerability found.
2010.03.25: Initial contact by support email address.
2010.03.29: Second contact by support, info and vertrieb (sales) email
address. Sent the Notification and Disclosure Policy and
the release date (2010.04.08).
2010.03.29: Initial Vendor response.
2010.03.30: Sent PoC, Advisory, Disclosure policy and planned disclosure
date (2010.04.08) to Vendor
2010.04.08: Ask for a status update, because the planned release date is
2010.04.08.
[-] No Response
2010.04.12: Set Release Date to 2010.04.15.
2010.04.08: Ask for a status update, because the planned release date is
2010.04.15.
[-] No Response
2010.04.15: Set Release Date to 2010.04.22.
2010.04.16: Vendor informed me that the vulnerability is a third party
issue and AnNoText contacted them.
2010.05.20: Asked if AnNoText already got a fixed version of the third
party component.
[-] No Response
2010.06.08: Informed AnNoText that the final release date is now the
2010.06.10
[-] No Response
2010.06.11: Release of this Advisory on my website
2010.06.19: Release of this Advisory on full-disc and Bugtraq