| Secunia ID |
SA27187
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| CVE-ID |
CVE-2007-3675
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| Release Date |
11 Oct 2007
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| Criticality |
Highly Critical
Typically used for remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that can lead to system compromise. Successful exploitation does not normally require any interaction but there are no known exploits available at the time of disclosure.
Such vulnerabilities can exist in services like FTP, HTTP, and SMTP or in client systems like email programs or browsers.
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| Solution Status |
Vendor Patch
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| Software |
Kaspersky Online Scanner 5.x
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| Where |
From remote
"From remote" describes other vulnerabilities where the attack vector doesn't require access to the system or a local network.
This category covers services that are acceptable to expose to the Internet (e.g. HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP). It also covers client applications used on the Internet and certain vulnerabilities where it is reasonable to assume that a security conscious user can be tricked into performing certain actions.
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| Impact |
System access
This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.
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| Description |
A vulnerability has been reported in Kaspersky Online Scanner, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error in the kavwebscan.CKAVWebScan ActiveX control (kavwebscan.dll) when processing arguments passed to certain unspecified methods. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code when a user e.g. visits a malicious website. The vulnerability affects versions 5.0.93.1 and prior.
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| Solution |
Update to version 5.0.98.0.
http://www.kaspersky.com/kos/eng/partner/default/kavwebscan.html
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| Reported by |
Discovered by Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security and reported via iDefense Labs.
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| Original Advisory |
Kaspersky:
http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=207575572 iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=606
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