Secunia Research: Orbit Downloader Long URL Parsing Buffer Overflow
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Secunia Research 25/02/2009
- Orbit Downloader Long URL Parsing 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
* Orbit Downloader 2.8.2 and 2.8.3
NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
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3) Vendor's Description of Software
"Orbit Downloader, leader of download manager revolution, is devoted
to new generation web (web2.0) downloading, such as video/music/
streaming media from Myspace, YouTube, Imeem, Pandora, Rapidshare,
support RTMP. And to make general downloading easier and faster.".
Product Link: http://www.orbitdownloader.com/
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4) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Orbit Downloader,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when generating
the "Connecting" log message for HTTP downloads. This can be
exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a
user into downloading from a malicious HTTP server or opening a
specially crafted HTTP URL containing an overly long host name.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
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5) Solution
Update to version 2.8.5.
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6) Time Table
21/01/2009 - Vendor notified.
04/02/2009 - Requested status update from vendor.
05/02/2009 - Vendor response.
10/02/2009 - Vendor states that the bug has been fixed and a new
version will be available soon.
25/02/2009 - Public disclosure.
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7) Credits
Discovered by Stefan Cornelius, Secunia Research.
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8) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2009-0187 for the vulnerability.
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10) Verification
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