Vulnerability Note VU#549054

Norton "WrapNISUM Class" (WrapUM.dll) ActiveX control allows remote arbitrary command execution

Overview

Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2004 Professional is a software package that provides antivirus, antispam, and personal firewall applications. A vulnerability in an Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2004 suite may permit a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the local system.

I. Description

Symantec Norton Internet Security 2004 and Professional for Windows installs the WrapNISUM Class (WrapUM.dll), an ActiveX control that is marked safe for scripting. The ActiveX control fails to properly parse and validate input from external sources. Using the "LaunchURL" method an attacker has the ability to force the browser to run arbitrary executables on the target system.

The victim must open a malicious web page or HTML-formatted email message in order for this vulnerability to be exploited remotely.

II. Impact

An attacker may be able to exploit this vulnerable to execute arbitrary commands on the target system.

III. Solution

According to the Symantec advisory, customers should run Symantec LiveUpdate manually to ensure all installed Symantec products are fully updated.

Open any installed Symantec product
Click on LiveUpdate in the toolbar
Run LiveUpdate until all available Symantec product updates are downloaded and installed

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Symantec Corporation	Vulnerable	24-Mar-2004

References

http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/security/Content/2004.03.19.html
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/nisrce.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/11168/

Credit

Thanks to NGSSoftware Insight Security Research for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Jason A Rafail and is based on information provided by NGSSoftware Insight Security Research and Symantec.

Other Information

Date Public:	2004-03-19
Date First Published:	2004-03-25
Date Last Updated:	2004-03-25
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):	CAN-2004-0364
NVD-ID(s):	CAN-2004-0364
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	12.43
Document Revision:	7

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