HP OLE Point of Sale Driver up to 1.13 OPOSToneIndicator.ocx memory corruption

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A vulnerability has been found in HP OLE Point of Sale Driver up to 1.13 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file OPOSToneIndicator.ocx. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2014-7890. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in HP OLE Point of Sale Driver up to 1.13 (Hardware Driver Software). It has been rated as very critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the file OPOSToneIndicator.ocx. 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. The summary by CVE is:

The OLE Point of Sale (OPOS) drivers before 1.13.003 on HP Point of Sale Windows PCs allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving OPOSToneIndicator.ocx for POS keyboards and POS keyboards with MSR, aka ZDI-CAN-2510.

The weakness was published 03/09/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared at h20564.www2.hp.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-7890 since 10/06/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/17/2022).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 81824 (HP OPOS CCO Drivers RCE 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 1.13.003 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (81824) and SecurityFocus (BID 72969†). Similar entries are available at VDB-75366, VDB-75367, VDB-75368 and VDB-75369. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Hardware Driver Software

Vendor

• HP

Name

• OLE Point of Sale Driver

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.hp.com/

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