Symantec Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6 ActiveX Control SSHelper.dll third memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Symantec Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6. Impacted is an unknown function in the library SSHelper.dll of the component ActiveX Control. Executing a manipulation of the argument third can lead to memory corruption. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2010-2305. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. The application of restrictive firewalling is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Symantec Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6 (Firewall Software). It has been declared as very critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block in the library SSHelper.dll of the component ActiveX Control. The manipulation of the argument third 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. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in an ActiveX control in SSHelper.dll for Symantec Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6 build 2808 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long third argument to the SetRegString method.

The weakness was shared 06/11/2010 (Website). The advisory is available at osvdb.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2010-2305 since 06/16/2010. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/31/2017).

A public exploit has been developed by Lincoln and been published immediately after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Proper firewalling of is able to address this issue.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (59408), Exploit-DB (13834) and OSVDB (65539†). 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: 9.4

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Lincoln
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OpenVAS ID: 901125
OpenVAS Name: registry_get_sz(key:key + item, item:DisplayName
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Recommended: Firewall
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12/31/2017 +1018 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: symantec.com

Advisory: osvdb.org⛔
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2010-2305 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2010-2305
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-53674
X-Force: 59408 - Sygate Personal Firewall SetRegString() buffer overflow
OSVDB: 65539 - Symantec Sygate Personal Firewall SSHelper.dll ActiveX SetRegString Method Overflow

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/19/2015 12:22
Updated: 12/31/2017 09:37
Changes: 03/19/2015 12:22 (61), 12/31/2017 09:37 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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