Secunia Research: Microsoft Agent URL Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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                 Secunia Research 10/04/2007

• Microsoft Agent URL Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software…1
Severity…2
Description of Vulnerability…3
Solution…4
Time Table…5
Credits…6
References…7
About Secunia…8
Verification…9

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1) Affected Software

• Windows 2000 SP4
• Windows XP SP2
• Windows Server 2003 SP2

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System compromise
Where: Remote

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3) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in Microsoft Agent
(agentsvr.exe) when processing specially crafted URLs passed as
arguments to certain methods.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a user
e.g. visits a malicious website with Internet Explorer.

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4) Solution

Apply patches (see Microsoft security bulletin for details).

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5) Time Table

11/12/2006 - Vendor notified.
11/12/2006 - Vendor response.
10/04/2007 - Public disclosure.

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6) Credits

Discovered by JJ Reyes and Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

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7) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2007-1205 for the vulnerability.

MS07-020 (KB932168):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-020.mspx

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9) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-74/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
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