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TITLE:
Second Sight ActiveGS ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24960

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24960/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Second Sight ActiveGS ActiveX Control
http://secunia.com/product/13994/

DESCRIPTION:
Will Dormann has reported some vulnerabilities in Second Sight
ActiveGS ActiveX control, which potentially can be exploited by
malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to unspecified errors within the
Second Sight ActiveGS ActiveX control (ActiveGS.ocx). These can be
exploited to cause a stack-based overflow when a user visits a
malicious website.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Will Dormann, CERT/CC

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
US-CERT VU#118737:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/118737

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