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Secunia Research 24/01/2007
- Audio Edit Magic NCTAudioFile2 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
Audio Edit Magic 9.2.3 Build 389
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) Vendor's Description of Software
"Audio Edit Magic is a full-featured digital audio editing software
that offers a variety of audio recording, mixing, editing, analyzing
and effects processing possibilities. It provides an intuitive,
easy-to-use interface and is designed for the everyday user. It has
dozens of amazing audio effects and tools for converting audio files
into different formats, including MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg Vorbis and many
others. And that's just the beginning of what you can do with Audio
Edit Magic."
Product Link:
http://www.mp3editmagic.com/index.htm
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4) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Audio Edit Magic,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the
NCTAudioFile2.AudioFile ActiveX control when handling the
"SetFormatLikeSample()" method. This can be exploited to cause a
stack-based buffer overflow by passing an overly long string (about
4124 bytes) as argument to the affected method.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a user
e.g. visits a malicious website.
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5) Solution
Set the kill-bit for the affected ActiveX control.
Use another product.
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6) Time Table
17/01/2007 - Vendor notified.
24/01/2007 - Public disclosure.
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7) Credits
Discovered by Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.
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8) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2007-0018 for the vulnerability.
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10) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
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