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Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (950760)

Article ID: 33134
Last updated: 27 Jan, 2009
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Posted: 22 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.
Updated: 27 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.

Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (950760)

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FamilyWindows : Microsoft Bulletins
Plugin ID33134
Bugtraq ID29558
CVE IDCVE-2007-0675
CVE-2008-0956

Description:

Synopsis :

The remote Windows host has an ActiveX control that is affected by
multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities.

Description :

The remote host contains the sapi.dll ActiveX control.

The version of this control installed on the remote host reportedly
contains multiple memory corruption flaws. If an attacker can trick a
user on the affected host into visiting a specially-crafted web page,
he may be able to leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code on the
host subject to the users privileges.

Solution :

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and 2008 :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-032.mspx

Risk factor :

High / CVSS Base Score : 9.3
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
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