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Symantec Products KeyView XLS Handling Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 28 Jan 2011 Release Date: 27 Aug 2009 5553 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

A vulnerability has been identified in various Symantec products, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error in the Autonomy KeyView Viewer for Excel (xlssr.dll) when processing XLS documents containing a malformed Shared String Table (SST) record, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into viewing a specially crafted Excel file.

Note: In certain of the affected Symantec products, the Autonomy KeyView module processes have been separated from the Symantec application processes and are executed with limited privileges.


Impact

  • Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

  • Symantec Mail Security for Domino version 8.0
  • Symantec Mail Security for Domino version 7.5.6
  • Symantec Mail Security for Domino version 7.5.5.32
  • Symantec Mail Security for Domino version 7.5.4.29
  • Symantec Mail Security for Domino version 7.5.3.25
  • Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange version 6.0.8
  • Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange version 6.0.7
  • Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange version 6.0.6
  • Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange version 5.0.12
  • Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange version 5.0.11
  • Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange version 5.0.10
  • Symantec Mail Security for SMTP versions 5.0.x
  • Symantec Mail Security Appliance/ Symantec BrightMail Appliance versions 5.0.x and later
  • Symantec BrightMail Appliance version 8.0.0
  • Symantec BrightMail Appliance version 8.0.1
  • Symantec Data Loss Prevention Enforce/Detection Servers version 7.2
  • Symantec Data Loss Prevention Enforce/Detection Servers for Windows version 8.1.1
  • Symantec Data Loss Prevention Enforce/Detection Servers for Windows version 9.0.1
  • Symantec Data Loss Prevention Enforce/Detection Servers for Linux version 8.1.1
  • Symantec Data Loss Prevention Enforce/Detection Servers for Linux version 9.0.1
  • Symantec Data Loss Prevention Endpoint Agents version 8.1.1
  • Symantec Data Loss Prevention Endpoint Agents version 9.0.1

Solutions

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