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Secunia Research: SpeedProject Products ZIP/UUE File Extraction Buffer Overflow



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                     Secunia Research 24/11/2005

  - SpeedProject Products ZIP/UUE File Extraction Buffer Overflow -

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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 

* ZipStar 5.0 Build 4285
* Squeez 5.0 Build 4285
* SpeedCommander 11.0 Build 4430
* SpeedCommander 10.51 Build 4430

Prior versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity 

Rating: Moderately Critical
Impact: System access
Where:  Remote

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3) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in various
SpeedProject products, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.

1) A boundary error exists in CxZIP60.dll and CxZIP60u.dll due to the
unsafe use of the "lstrcat()" function when constructing the full
pathname of a file that is extracted from a ZIP archive. This can be
exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and allows arbitrary
code execution when a specially crafted archive is extracted.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in the following products.
* ZipStar 5.0 Build 4285
* Squeez 5.0 Build 4285
* SpeedCommander 11.0 Build 4430
* SpeedCommander 10.51 Build 4430

2) A boundary error exists in CxUux60.dll and CxUux60u.dll due to
the unsafe use of the "lstrcpy()" function when constructing the
full pathname of the file that is decoded from a UUE file. This can
be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and allows
arbitrary code execution when a specially crafted UUE file is
decoded.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in the following products.
* Squeez 5.0 Build 4285
* SpeedCommander 11.0 Build 4430
* SpeedCommander 10.51 Build 4430

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4) Solution 

Update to the fixed versions.

SpeedCommander 10:
Update to version 10.52 Build 4450.

SpeedCommander 11:
Update to version 11.01 Build 4450.

Squeez 5.0:
Update to Squeez 5.10 Build 4460.

ZipStar 5.0:
Update to ZipStar 5.10 Build 4460.

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5) Time Table 

03/11/2005 - Initial vendor notification.
03/11/2005 - Initial vendor reply.
17/11/2005 - Vendor released fixed versions.
24/11/2005 - Public disclosure.

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6) Credits 

Discovered by Tan Chew Keong, Secunia Research.

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7) References

No other references.

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8) About Secunia 

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9) Verification 

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-60/advisory/

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

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