__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN WinZip FileView ActiveX Control November 16, 2006 18:00 GMT Number R-045 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: A vulnerability was reported in WinZip. A remote user can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system. PLATFORM: 10.0 prior to 10.0 Build 7245 DAMAGE: A remote user can create specially crafted HTML that, when loaded by the target user, will trigger a flaw in the FileView ActiveX control and execute arbitrary code on the target system. The code will run with the privileges of the target user. SOLUTION: Apply current patches. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. A remote user can execute arbitrary code on ASSESSMENT: the target user's system. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-045.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.winzip.com/wz7245.htm ADDITIONAL LINKS: SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1017226 http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2006/Nov/1017226.html CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5198 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start WinZip 10.0 Build 7245 *****] See http://www.winzip.com/wz7245.htm for information regarding this vulnerability. [***** End WinZip 10.0 Build 7245 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Security Tracker for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. CIAC is also a founding member of FIRST, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, a global organization established to foster cooperation and coordination among computer security teams worldwide. CIAC services are available to DOE, DOE contractors, and the NIH. CIAC can be contacted at: Voice: +1 925-422-8193 (7x24) FAX: +1 925-423-8002 STU-III: +1 925-423-2604 E-mail: ciac@ciac.org Previous CIAC notices, anti-virus software, and other information are available from the CIAC Computer Security Archive. World Wide Web: http://www.ciac.org/ Anonymous FTP: ftp.ciac.org PLEASE NOTE: Many users outside of the DOE, ESnet, and NIH computing communities receive CIAC bulletins. If you are not part of these communities, please contact your agency's response team to report incidents. Your agency's team will coordinate with CIAC. The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) is a world-wide organization. A list of FIRST member organizations and their constituencies can be obtained via WWW at http://www.first.org/. This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor the University of California nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the United States Government or the University of California. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or the University of California, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes. LAST 10 CIAC BULLETINS ISSUED (Previous bulletins available from CIAC) R-035: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Desktop R-036: php4 Several Vulnerabilities R-037: Wireshark Security Update R-038: HP Tru64 UNIX POSIX Threads R-039: Vulnerabilities in Client Service for NetWare R-040: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer R-041: Vulnerability in Microsoft Agent R-042: Vulnerabilities in Macromedia Flash Player from Adobe R-043: Vulnerability in Workstation Service R-044: Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services