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HP Mercury Quality Center Buffer Overflow

From Secunia:

Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in HP Mercury Quality Center, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the SPIDERLib.Loader ActiveX control (Spider90.ocx) installed by HP Mercury Quality Center. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by setting the “ProgColor” property to an overly long string.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when visiting a malicious website.

The vulnerability reportedly affects version 8.2 SP1 and 9.0.

Solution:
Apply patches.

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[tags]HO Mercury, Buffer Overflow, Vulnerability[/tags]

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