IBM Forms Viewer Stack Buffer Overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72026

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Synopsis

The remote Windows host has an application that is affected by a stack-based buffer overflow.

Description

The version of IBM Forms Viewer on the remote host is affected by a stack-based buffer overflow in the XDL form fontname tag parser.
This can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade to IBM Forms Viewer 4.0.0.3 or 8.0.1.1 or newer.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72026

File Name: ibm_forms_viewer_overflow.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 1/19/2014

Updated: 11/26/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:ibm:forms_viewer

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, SMB/ibm_forms_viewer/Installed

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/15/2013

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (IBM Forms Viewer Unicode Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5447

Detections

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