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

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A vulnerability was found in HP OLE Point of Sale Driver up to 1.13. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file OPOSCheckScanner.ocx. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2014-7893. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in HP OLE Point of Sale Driver up to 1.13 (Hardware Driver Software). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file OPOSCheckScanner.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 weakness was presented 03/09/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at h20564.www2.hp.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-7893 since 10/06/2014. 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 $0-$5k (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†). See VDB-75365, VDB-75366, VDB-75367 and VDB-75369 for similar entries. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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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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