Microsoft Windows RLE Video Decompressor Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
ZDI-10-015: February 9th, 2010CVE ID
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Affected Vendors
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TippingPoint™ IPS Customer Protection
TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 9453. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:Vulnerability Details
This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on applications that utilize DirectShow for rendering video on Microsoft Windows. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must be coerced into decompressing a malicious video.
The specific flaw exists within the decompression of a specific type of video stream contained in an .AVI file. The application misuses a length field for an allocation causing the memory allocation to be too small to contain the subsequent data. During population of this buffer, the application will copy more data than allocated for leading to memory corruption with the potential for code execution.
Vendor Response
Microsoft has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:Disclosure Timeline
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2009-01-15 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2010-02-09 - Coordinated public release of advisory
Credit
This vulnerability was discovered by:-
Anonymous
