ISS Coverage |
| Product |
Content Version |
Network Sensor 7.0
Proventia A
Proventia IPS (G/GX)
Server Sensor 7.0
Proventia Multifunction Appliance
Proventia Server (Linux) |
29.060
1.97
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Proventia Server (Windows)
Proventia Desktop |
2400
1980 |
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Detailed Description |
| Business Impact: |
Microsoft DirectX is a core component of Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 and is enabled by default. Successful exploitation of this issue would provide an attacker with complete control over the endpoint target. The use of malicious media files like images and movies has been prevalent in the past years and the use of malicious movies, in particular, substantially increased near the end of 2008. This vulnerability was being actively exploited which led to its public disclosure by Microsoft. Currently, specially-crafted QuickTime videos are being hosted on malicious websites, but these malicious files may also arrive through other vectors such as spam. |
| CVSS: |
Base Score: |
9.3 |
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Access Vector: |
Network |
| Access Complexity: |
Medium |
| Authentication: |
None |
| Confidentiality Impact: |
Complete |
| Integrity Impact: |
Complete |
| Availability Impact: |
Complete |
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| Adjusted Temporal Score: |
8.8 |
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Exploitability: |
Functional |
| Remediation Level: |
Unavailable |
| Report Confidence: |
Confirmed |
| Affected Products: |
For a full list of affected versions, see references below. |
| Technical Description: |
Microsoft DirectX could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the improper parsing of QuickTime content in quartz.dll. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted QuickTime media file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of the victim. |
| Remediation: |
As of June 15, 2009, patches were not yet available for this issue. See References for details. |
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