Oracle Outside In OOXML Relationship Tag Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

January 20th, 2012
ZDI-12-017 ZDI-CAN-1306

CVE ID

CVSS Score

9.7 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:P

Affected Vendors

Oracle

Affected Products

Outside In

Vulnerability Details


This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Outside In. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The flaw exists within the sccfut.dll component which is used by multiple vendors, most notably the Novell Groupwise E-Mail Client. When opening the OOXML formatted mail attachment for preview the process copies the target of a Relationship tag to a local stack buffer. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of SYSTEM.

Additional Details

Oracle has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2012-366304.html

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2011-11-02 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2012-01-20 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

Anonymous

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