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[SA25624] HP Help and Support Center Unspecified Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2007 - 11:47:04 CDT


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TITLE:
HP Help and Support Center Unspecified Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25624

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25624/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
HP Help and Support Center 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/14525/

DESCRIPTION:
HP has acknowledged a vulnerability in Help and Support Center, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified buffer overflow
condition, which can be exploited to read or write files on a
vulnerable system when a user e.g. visits a malicious website.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 4.4 C.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.4 C.
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp35501-36000/sp35567.exe

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericSoftwareDownloadIndex?cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&softwareitem=ob-48738-1&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

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