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Secunia Research 09/05/2007

- BearShare NCTAudioFile2 ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software.......................................... ..........1
Severity.......................................... ...................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability..................................... ....4
Solution.......................................... ...................5
Time Table............................................. ..............6
Credits........................................... ...................7
References........................................ ...................8
About Secunia........................................... .............9
Verification...................................... ..................10

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1) Affected Software

BearShare 6.0.2.26789

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System compromise
Where: Remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

"Share, Discover and Download music and videos."

Product Link:
http://www.bearshare.com/

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in BearShare, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the
NCTAudioFile2.AudioFile ActiveX control when handling the
"SetFormatLikeSample()" method. This can be exploited to cause a
stack-based buffer overflow by passing an overly long string (about
4124 bytes) as argument to the affected method.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a user
e.g. visits a malicious website.

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5) Solution

Set the kill-bit for the affected ActiveX control.

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6) Time Table

30/04/2007 - Vendor notified.
09/05/2007 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits

Discovered by Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2007-0018 for the vulnerability.

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10) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-50/

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