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TITLE:
Macrovision FLEXnet Connect Update Service Agent Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24270

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CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Macrovision FLEXnet Connect
http://secunia.com/product/13552/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Macrovision FLEXnet Connect,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
"Download()" method of the Update Service Agent ActiveX control
(isusweb.dll), which can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but
requires that a user is e.g. tricked into visiting a malicious
website.

SOLUTION:
Set the kill-bit for the affected ActiveX control.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dan Plakosh, Software Engineering Institute

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
US-CERT VU#847993:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/847993

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