VDB-35684 · CVE-2007-1512 · OSVDB 58785

Microsoft Visual Studio mfc42u.dll afxoleseteditmenu stack-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Microsoft Visual Studio. Affected by this vulnerability is the function afxoleseteditmenu in the library mfc42u.dll. Such manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2007-1512. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Visual Studio (Programming Tool Software) (unknown version). It has been rated as very critical. Affected by this issue is the function afxoleseteditmenu in the library mfc42u.dll. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the AfxOleSetEditMenu function in the MFC component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, and Server 2003 Gold and SP1, and Visual Studio .NET 2002 Gold and SP1, and 2003 Gold and SP1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to have an unknown impact (probably crash) via an RTF file with a malformed OLE object, which results in writing two 0x00 characters past the end of szBuffer, aka the "MFC42u.dll Off-by-Two Overflow." NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete patch (MS07-012) for CVE-2007-0025.

The bug was discovered 03/15/2007. The weakness was shared 03/20/2007 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-1512 since 03/20/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 07/17/2019).

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 $25k-$100k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 90381 (Microsoft MFC Could Allow Remote Code Execution (MS07-012)).

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 OSVDB (58785†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-14715†). The entry VDB-2933 is related to this item. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Stack-based overflow
CWE: CWE-121 / CWE-119
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03/15/2007 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2007-1512 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-1512
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-35684
OSVDB: 58785 - CVE-2007-1512 - Microsoft - Windows - Buffer Overflow Issue
Vulnerability Center: 14715 - Microsoft Windows and Visual Studio AfxOleSetEditMenu Function in the MFC Component Buffer Overflow, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/13/2015 12:16
Updated: 07/17/2019 09:15
Changes: 03/13/2015 12:16 (58), 07/17/2019 09:15 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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