IBM Lotus Notes Autonomy KeyView Office Shape Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

August 23rd, 2010
ZDI-10-157 ZDI-CAN-638

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

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 Word document containing a malformed shape. The application will calculate a length incorrectly when using it to copy data into an allocated buffer. This 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

Credit

Anonymous

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