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Secunia Research: SAP Crystal Reports Print ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow

2010-12-2100:00:00
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                 Secunia Research 14/12/2010
  • SAP Crystal Reports Print ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software…1
Severity…2
Vendor's Description of Software…3
Description of Vulnerability…4
Solution…5
Time Table…6
Credits…7
References…8
About Secunia…9
Verification…10

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1) Affected Software

  • Crystal Reports 2008 SP3 Fix Pack 3.2 Print ActiveX (12.3.2.753)

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: Remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

"SAP Crystal Reports software enables you to easily design interactive
reports and connect them to virtually any data source. Your users can
benefit from on-report sorting and filtering giving them the power to
execute decisions instantly."

Product Link:
http://www.sap.com/solutions/sap-crystal-solutions/index.epx

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4) Description of Vulnerability

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the
"CrystalReports12.CrystalPrintControl.1" ActiveX control
(PrintControl.dll) when processing the "ServerResourceVersion"
property and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow
via an overly long string.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

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5) Solution

Set the kill-bit for the affected ActiveX control.

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6) Time Table

19/11/2010 - Vendor notified.
19/11/2010 - Vendor response.
24/11/2010 - Vendor confirms the vulnerability.
14/12/2010 - Independent discovery and public disclosure by a third
party.
14/12/2010 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits

Discovered by Dmitriy Pletnev, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2010-2590 for the vulnerability.

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9) About Secunia

Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate
customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence
relevant to their specific system configuration:

http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/

Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory
database as a service to the security community and private
individuals, who are interested in or concerned about IT-security.

http://secunia.com/advisories/

Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to
do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the
security and reliability of software in general:

http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. Check the URL below
to see currently vacant positions:

http://secunia.com/corporate/jobs/

Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories:

http://secunia.com/advisories/mailing_lists/

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10) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-135/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

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