Buffer overflow in HP Instant Support Driver Check (SDD) ActiveX control

From: NGSSoftware Insight Security Research <nisr(at)ngssoftware.com>
Date: Tue Jul 03 2007 - 06:20:34 EDT

John Heasman of NGSSoftware has discovered a high risk vulnerability in the HP Instant Support Driver Check (SDD) ActiveX control, which is marked safe for scripting.

The vulnerability affects the following version of the SDD control:

HP Instant Support Driver Check versions prior to 1.5.0.3

This vulnerability could be exploited on a malicious web page in order to execute arbitrary code under the user context of the browser.

Details

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The queryHub([IN] BSTR bstrValue) method contains a stack based buffer overflow.

Solution

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This issue has now been resolved in version 1.5.0.3. Further details are available at:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01077597

NGSSoftware Insight Security Research

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