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TITLE:
Electronic Arts SnoopyCtrl ActiveX Control Buffer Overflows

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27143

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27143/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Electronic Arts SnoopyCtrl ActiveX Control
http://secunia.com/product/15990/

DESCRIPTION:
Will Dormann has reported some vulnerabilities in Electronic Arts
SnoopyCtrl ActiveX control, which can be exploited by malicious
people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors when handling
certain unspecified methods and initialization parameters. These can
be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows when a user e.g.
visits a malicious website.

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

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
US-CERT VU#179281:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/179281

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