A vulnerability has been identified in the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a design error in the "snapview.ocx" ActiveX control that does not restrict access to certain methods, which could be exploited by attackers to download files to arbitrary locations on a vulnerable system by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.
Note: This vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by the vendor.
ChangeLog
2008-07-07 : Initial release
2008-08-12 : Updated Solution
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