Advisory Details

December 11th, 2014

Honeywell OPOS Suite HWOPOSScale.ocx Open Method Stack Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-14-424
ZDI-CAN-2527

CVE ID CVE-2014-8269
CVSS SCORE 7.5, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS Honeywell
AFFECTED PRODUCTS OPOS Suite
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['16852']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS


This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Honeywell OPOS Suite. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists within the HWOPOSScale.ocx. The control does not check the length of an attacker-supplied string to the Open method before copying it into a fixed length buffer on the stack. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the browser process.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS Honeywell has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/659684
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
  • 2014-10-16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2014-12-11 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT Ariele Caltabiano (kimiya)
BACK TO ADVISORIES