From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2007 - 11:17:08 CDT

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TITLE:
Callisto PhotoParade Player PhPInfo ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26789

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26789/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Callisto PhotoParade Player 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/15719/

DESCRIPTION:
Will Dormann has reported a vulnerability in the Callisto PhotoParade
Player PhPInfo ActiveX control, which potentially can be exploited by
malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the
handling of the "FileVersionOf" property of the PhPinfo ActiveX
control (PhPCtrl.dll), which can be exploited to cause a buffer
overflow by e.g. tricking a user into visiting a malicious website.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Set the kill-bit for the affected ActiveX control.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Will Dormann, CERT/CC

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
US-CERT VU#171449:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/171449

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