HP Mercury Quality Center 9.x SPIDERLib ActiveX Control memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in HP Mercury Quality Center 9.x. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component SPIDERLib ActiveX Control. This manipulation causes memory corruption. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2007-1819. Furthermore, an exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in HP Mercury Quality Center 9.x. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component SPIDERLib ActiveX Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the SPIDERLib.Loader ActiveX control (Spider90.ocx) 9.1.0.4353 in TestDirector (TD) for Mercury Quality Center 9.0 before Patch 12.1, and 8.2 SP1 before Patch 32, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long ProgColor property.

The bug was discovered 03/27/2007. The weakness was published 04/02/2007 by Eric Detoisien (Titon Ri0t) with Cert/CC (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at labs.idefense.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2007-1819 since 04/02/2007. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is possible to download the exploit at d2sec.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 6 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 24909 (TestDirector (TD) for Mercury Quality Center SPIDERLib.Loader ActiveX Control (Spider90.ocx) ProgColor Property Overflow), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at webnotes.merc-int.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 10419. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 8175.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (33353), Exploit-DB (3661), Tenable (24909), SecurityFocus (BID 23239†) and OSVDB (34317†). Similar entries are available at VDB-458, VDB-992, VDB-1454 and VDB-2668. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
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Nessus ID: 24909
Nessus Name: TestDirector (TD) for Mercury Quality Center SPIDERLib.Loader ActiveX Control (Spider90.ocx) ProgColor Property Overflow
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MetaSploit ID: hpmqc_progcolor.rb
MetaSploit Name: HP Mercury Quality Center ActiveX Control ProgColor Buffer Overflow
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: webnotes.merc-int.com

Snort ID: 10419
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: hp.com

Advisory: labs.idefense.com⛔
Researcher: Eric Detoisien (Titon Ri0t)
Organization: Cert/CC
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2007-1819 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-1819
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-2995
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X-Force: 33353
SecurityFocus: 23239 - HP Mercury Quality Center ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 24692 - HP Mercury Quality Center SPIDERLib ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 34317 - HP TestDirector (TD) for Mercury Quality Center SPIDERLib.Loader ActiveX Control (Spider90.ocx) ProgColor Property Overflow
SecurityTracker: 1017835
Vulnerability Center: 14764 - Mercury Quality Center TestDirector ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2007-1185

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

Created: 04/12/2007 10:27
Updated: 11/26/2024 00:29
Changes: 04/12/2007 10:27 (105), 07/17/2019 11:28 (1), 11/26/2024 00:29 (17)
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Cache ID: 216:5FE:103

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