PPMate PPMedia Class 2.3.1.93 ActiveX Control ppmplayer.dll memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in PPMate PPMedia Class 2.3.1.93. It has been rated as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function in the library ppmplayer.dll of the component ActiveX Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the PPMedia Class ActiveX control in PPMPlayer.dll in PPMate 2.3.1.93 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the StartUrl method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

The bug was discovered 07/16/2008. The weakness was released 07/21/2008 by Parvez Anwar (Website). The advisory is shared for download at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-3242 since 07/21/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 11/02/2024).

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (43831), Exploit-DB (6090), SecurityFocus (BID 30246†), OSVDB (47054†) and Secunia (SA30952†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 10.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.1

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Suricata ID: 2009143
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Researcher: Parvez Anwar
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2008-3242 (🔍)
X-Force: 43831
SecurityFocus: 30246 - PPMate PPMedia Class ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 30952
OSVDB: 47054 - PPMate - PPMedia - Class ActiveX Control Remote Buffer Overflow Issue
Vulnerability Center: 19101 - PPMate 2.3.1.93 PPMedia Class ActiveX Control Heap-Based Buffer Overflow, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2008-2118

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 12:19 PM
Updated: 11/02/2024 03:47 AM
Changes: 03/17/2015 12:19 PM (62), 08/15/2019 10:42 AM (10), 11/02/2024 03:47 AM (20)
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