Hex-Rays SA IDA up to 6.6 on Windows Database Remote Code Execution

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A vulnerability was found in Hex-Rays SA IDA up to 6.6 on Windows. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown code of the component Database Handler. The impact remains unknown.

The weakness was published 06/13/2014 by Tadashi Kobayashi as Cumulative fix of potentially critical bugs found in IDA as confirmed release notes (Website). The advisory is shared at hex-rays.com. The public release has been coordinated with Hex-Rays SA. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The advisory points out:

he TIL part of the malformed database could be used to trigger the vulnerability.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 4 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. The release notes contains the following remark:

We provide a fix for v6.5 and v6.6.

Similar entries are available at 8836, 8837, 8838 and 9525.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.4

VulDB Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Temp Score: 5.4
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Remote Code Execution
CWE: Unknown
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined
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Recommended: Patch
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: Cumulative fix of potentially critical bugs found in IDA
Researcher: Tadashi Kobayashi
Status: Confirmed
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/14/2014 17:15
Changes: 06/14/2014 17:15 (50)
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