Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-5492 - Buffer Errors vulnerability in Verypdf Verydoc PDF Viewer 2.0.0.1
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the PDFVIEW.PdfviewCtrl.1 ActiveX control in pdfview.ocx 2.0.0.1 in VeryDOC PDF Viewer OCX Control allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long first argument to the OpenPDF method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Exploit-Db
description VeryPDF PDFView ActiveX Component Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. CVE-2008-5492. Dos exploit for windows platform id EDB-ID:32587 last seen 2016-02-03 modified 2008-11-15 published 2008-11-15 reporter r0ut3r source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/32587/ title VeryPDF PDFView ActiveX Component Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability description VeryPDF PDFView OCX ActiveX OpenPDF Heap Overflow. CVE-2008-5492. Remote exploit for windows platform id EDB-ID:16520 last seen 2016-02-02 modified 2010-09-20 published 2010-09-20 reporter metasploit source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/16520/ title VeryPDF PDFView - OCX ActiveX OpenPDF Heap Overflow description VeryPDF PDFView OCX ActiveX OpenPDF Heap Overflow PoC. CVE-2008-5492. Dos exploit for windows platform file exploits/windows/dos/7126.html id EDB-ID:7126 last seen 2016-02-01 modified 2008-11-15 platform windows port published 2008-11-15 reporter r0ut3r source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/7126/ title VeryPDF PDFView - OCX ActiveX OpenPDF Heap Overflow PoC type dos
Metasploit
| description | The VeryPDF PDFView ActiveX control is prone to a heap buffer-overflow because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into an insufficiently sized memory buffer. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application. |
| id | MSF:EXPLOIT/WINDOWS/BROWSER/VERYPDF_PDFVIEW |
| last seen | 2020-03-10 |
| modified | 2017-07-24 |
| published | 2009-01-04 |
| references | https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5492 |
| reporter | Rapid7 |
| source | https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master//modules/exploits/windows/browser/verypdf_pdfview.rb |
| title | VeryPDF PDFView OCX ActiveX OpenPDF Heap Overflow |