Advisory Details

August 23rd, 2010

IBM Lotus Notes Autonomy KeyView WK3 Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-10-158
ZDI-CAN-639

CVE ID
CVSS SCORE 10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS IBM
Autonomy
AFFECTED PRODUCTS Lotus Notes
KeyView
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['10005']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of IBM Lotus Notes Email Client. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must open a malicious email attachment.

The specific flaw exists within the Lotus Notes file viewer utilizing the KeyView SDK to render a malformed .wk3 document. The application will mistrust a length used to allocate a buffer. Later, the application will use a differently calculated length in a copy used to initialize that buffer. This leads to a buffer overflow and can lead to code execution under the context of the application.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

Autonomy corrected the above issues in the patch releases of versions 10.10, 10.8, 10.4, 9.2, 7.4 of IDOL Keyview on February 28, 2010.

IBM states:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&uid=swg21440812


DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
  • 2010-01-22 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2010-08-23 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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