National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2434

Overview

The Trend Micro HouseCall ActiveX control 6.51.0.1028 and 6.6.0.1278 in Housecall_ActiveX.dll allows remote attackers to download an arbitrary library file onto a client system via a "custom update server" argument. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

Per http://esupport.trendmicro.com/support/viewxml.do?ContentID=EN-1038646&id=EN-1038646 To resolve the issue: Request the HouseCall 6.6 Hot Fix Build 1285 file from Trend Micro Technical Support.}

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#541025

Name: VU#541025

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/541025

External Source: XF

Name: housecall-library-code-execution(47524)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47524

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-3464

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3464

External Source: BID

Name: 32965

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32965

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081222 Secunia Research: Trend Micro HouseCall ActiveX Control Arbitrary Code Execution

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/499495/100/0/threaded

External Source: SREASON

Name: 4802

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4802

External Source: MISC

Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-32/

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-32/

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31337

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31337

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 50941

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/50941

External Source: MISC

Name: http://esupport.trendmicro.com/support/viewxml.do?ContentID=EN-1038646&id=EN-1038646

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://esupport.trendmicro.com/support/viewxml.do?ContentID=EN-1038646&id=EN-1038646