Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Hex-Rays SA IDA Pro up to 6.3 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component IDB File Handler. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. No exploit exists. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Hex-Rays SA IDA Pro up to 6.3. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component IDB File Handler. 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 disclosed 05/15/2013 as not defined changelog entry (Website). The advisory is shared at hex-rays.com. The public release has been coordinated in cooperation with Hex-Rays SA. The exploitation is known to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at hex-rays.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at OSVDB (93560†). The entries VDB-8836, VDB-8838, VDB-9525 and VDB-9814 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Hex-Rays SA

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• IDA Pro

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• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3

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