Cerulean Studios Trillian Pro up to 3.1.5.0 heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cerulean Studios Trillian Pro up to 3.1.5.0. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability was named CVE-2007-2478. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cerulean Studios Trillian Pro up to 3.1.5.0 (Messaging Software). Affected is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the IRC component in Cerulean Studios Trillian Pro before 3.1.5.1 allow remote attackers to corrupt memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a URL with a long UTF-8 string, which triggers the overflow when the user highlights it, or (2) a font HTML tag with a face attribute containing a long UTF-8 string.

The bug was discovered 04/30/2007. The weakness was presented 05/01/2007 by iDefense Labs with iDEFENSE Labs (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securitytracker.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2007-2478 since 05/02/2007. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 25120 (Trillian < 3.1.5.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities), 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 to version 3.1.5.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (33985), Tenable (25120), SecurityFocus (BID 23730†), OSVDB (35721†) and Secunia (SA25086†). See VDB-36589 and VDB-36570 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 25120
Nessus Name: Trillian < 3.1.5.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Trillian Pro 3.1.5.1

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securitytracker.com⛔
Researcher: iDefense Labs
Organization: iDEFENSE Labs
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2007-2478 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-2478
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-36588
X-Force: 33985
SecurityFocus: 23730 - Cerulean Studios Trillian Multiple IRC Module UTF-8 Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 25086
OSVDB: 35721 - Trillian Pro IRC Component UTF-8 String Handling Multiple Overflows
SecurityTracker: 1017982
Vulnerability Center: 15024 - Cerulean Studios Trillian Pro before 3.1.5.1 Remote Memory Corruption and Code Execution, High
Vupen: ADV-2007-1596

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/13/2015 14:56
Updated: 07/18/2019 17:24
Changes: 03/13/2015 14:56 (79), 07/18/2019 17:24 (2)
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