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TITLE:
AOL dnUpdater ActiveX Control Code Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49550

VERIFY ADVISORY:
Secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/49550/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=49550

RELEASE DATE:
2012-06-22

DISCUSS ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/49550/#comments

AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA:
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 * Comments
 * Criticality Level
 * Impact
 * Where
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 * Operating System / Software
 * CVE Reference(s)

http://secunia.com/advisories/49550/

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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=49550

ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI:
 * AUTOMATED SCANNING

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in AOL dnUpdater ActiveX Control,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to the ActiveX control using a
certain parameter passed to the "Init()" method as a function pointer
and can be exploited to transfer the program flow to an arbitrary
memory location.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Apply updates.

Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Andrea Micalizzi (rgod) via ZDI

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ZDI:
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-12-098/

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

DEEP LINKS:
Further details available in Customer Area:
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EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
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EXTENDED SOLUTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

EXPLOIT:
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http://secunia.com/vulnerability_intelligence/

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