PT-2008-3902 · Trend Micro · Trend Micro Housecall

Alin Rad Pop · Published 2008-12-23 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-2434

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Trend Micro HouseCall versions 6.51.0.1028 through 6.6.0.1278

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to download an arbitrary library file onto a client system via a "custom update server" argument. This can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Recommendations: For versions 6.51.0.1028 through 6.6.0.1278, consider disabling the HouseCall ActiveX control until a patch is available. Restrict access to the custom update server argument to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-2434

Affected Products

Trend Micro Housecall

References · 12

• http://esupport.trendmicro.com/support/viewxml.do?ContentID=EN-1038646&id=EN-1038646 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-32 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2434 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31337 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47524 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/499495/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://osvdb.org/50941 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32965 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4802 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2434 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3464 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/541025 · Note