bugtraq - Secunia Research: Autonomy Keyview Ichitaro Text Parsing Buffer Overflow

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Message-Id: <201110070658.p976wE38027850@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 08:58:14 +0200
From: Secunia Research <remove-vuln@...unia.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Secunia Research: Autonomy Keyview Ichitaro Text Parsing Buffer Overflow

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                     Secunia Research 07/10/2011

      - Autonomy Keyview Ichitaro Text 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 

* Autonomy Keyview 10.3

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity 

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where:  Remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software 

"KeyView IDOL Viewing SDK allows you to build applications with 
high-fidelity viewing and printing capabilities for the word 
processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphic, multimedia, 
compression and encoding formats that contain the information your 
end-users need to access.".

Product Link:
http://www.autonomy.com/content/Products/idol-modules-keyview-viewing
/index.en.html

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Autonomy Keyview, 
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable 
system.

The vulnerability is caused by a boundary error in the Ichitaro speed 
reader (jtdsr.dll) when parsing "Text" chunks and can be exploited to 
cause a heap-based buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

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5) Solution 

Patches are available for releases 7.4, 9.2, and 10.13.

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6) Time Table 

26/04/2011 - Vendor notified
26/04/2011 - Vendor response.
05/05/2011 - Vendor provides status update.
03/10/2011 - Status update requested.
03/10/2011 - Vendor provides status update.
07/10/2011 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits 

Discovered by Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned 
CVE-2011-0338 for the vulnerability.

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9) About Secunia

Secunia offers vulnerability management solutions to corporate
customers with verified and reliable vulnerability intelligence
relevant to their specific system configuration:

http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/

Secunia also provides a publicly accessible and comprehensive advisory
database as a service to the security community and private 
individuals, who are interested in or concerned about IT-security.

http://secunia.com/advisories/

Secunia believes that it is important to support the community and to
do active vulnerability research in order to aid improving the 
security and reliability of software in general:

http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

Secunia regularly hires new skilled team members. Check the URL below
to see currently vacant positions:

http://secunia.com/corporate/jobs/

Secunia offers a FREE mailing list called Secunia Security Advisories:

http://secunia.com/advisories/mailing_lists/

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10) Verification 

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2011-70/

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/

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