Advisory Details

February 10th, 2015

SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor TSUnicodeGraphEditorControl factory.loadExtensionFactory Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2015-1500
CVSS SCORE	7.5, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	SolarWinds
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Server and Application Monitor
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION	Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['16728']. 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 SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor. 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 'factory' object's loadExtensionFactory method. The issue lies in a failure to validate the size of an attacker-supplied input before copying it into a fixed-size buffer on the stack. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	SolarWinds has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://downloads.solarwinds.com/solarwinds/Release/HotFix/OrionPlatform-2014.2.1-HotFix7.zip
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2014-09-03 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2015-02-10 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Andrea Micalizzi (rgod)

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