Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in AOL, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the “CDDBControlAOL.CDDBAOLControl” ActiveX control (cddbcontrol.dll) when processing “ClientId” arguments passed to the “SetClientInfo()” method. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by passing an overly long string (more than 256 bytes). Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a user visits a malicious website with Internet Explorer. In order to exploit the vulnerability, a certain registry value has to be set to “1111”. This is not set by default, but can be set up automatically by first instantiating the bundled CerberusCDPlayer ActiveX control. Affected software includes America Online 7.0 revision 4114.563, AOL 8.0 revision 4129.230, and AOL 9.0 Security Edition revision 4156.910.
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