Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the awApi4.AnswerWorks.1 ActiveX control in awApi4.dll 4.0.0.42, as used by Vantage Linguistics AnswerWorks, and Intuit Clearly Bookkeeping, ProSeries, QuickBooks, Quicken, QuickTax, and TurboTax, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the (1) GetHistory, (2) GetSeedQuery, (3) SetSeedQuery, and possibly other methods. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Public exploits
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Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Vantage Linguistics AnswerWorks 4 - API ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow EDB-4825 · remote · Dec 31, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- http://www.vantagelinguistics.com/answerworks/release/
- ADV-2007-4194 vdb-entry
- 4825 exploit
- http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/qbupdate2007/Default.aspx
- 26566 third-party-advisory
- http://www.intuit.com/support/security/
- 26670 third-party-advisory
- vantage-answerworks-bo(39004) vdb-entry
- 26815 vdb-entry
- ADV-2007-4195 vdb-entry