CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2434
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
The Trend Micro HouseCall ActiveX control 6.51.0.1028 and 6.6.0.1278 in Housecall_ActiveX.dll allows remote attackers to download an arbitrary library file onto a client system via a "custom update server" argument. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.
Affected configurations
• trend micro housecall 6.6
• trend micro housecall 6.6.0.1278
• trend micro housecall 6.51.0.1028
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://esupport.trendmicro.com/support/viewxml.do?ContentID=EN-1038646&id=EN-1038646 Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/50941 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31337 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-32/ Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4802 securityreason.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/541025 US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499495/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32965 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3464 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47524 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://esupport.trendmicro.com/support/viewxml.do?ContentID=EN-1038646&id=EN-1038646 Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/50941 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31337 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-32/ Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4802 securityreason.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/541025 US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499495/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32965 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3464 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47524 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com