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IBM Lotus iNotes dwa85W ActiveX Attachment_Times Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-12-132: August 3rd, 2012

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Affected Vendors

Affected Products

    Lotues iNotes

Vulnerability Details


This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of IBM Lotus iNotes. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists within the dwa85W.cab ActiveX control. When passing a long string argument to the Attachment_Times parameter during the control instantiation it is possible to overflow a stack buffer causing memory corruption. This can be leveraged by an attacker to execute code under the context of the user running the browser.

Vendor Response

IBM has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:

Disclosure Timeline

    2011-12-07 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2012-08-03 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Gaurav Baruah of eSecForte Technologies Pvt. Ltd