VUPEN Security - ICQ "ICQPhone.SipxPhoneManager" ActiveX Control File Download Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Title : ICQ "ICQPhone.SipxPhoneManager" ActiveX Control File Download Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4362
CVE ID : CVE-2006-5650
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-11-06

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A vulnerability has been identified in ICQ, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to an error in the ICQPhone.SipxPhoneManager ActiveX control that does not validate input passed to the "DownloadAgent()" method, which could be exploited by remote attackers to download and execute a malicious file on a vulnerable system by using a specially crafted avatar and sending a message to a user.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Peter Vreugdenhil

ChangeLog

2006-11-06 : Initial release

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