CVE-2008-2434
N/A
Published: December 23, 2008 at 06:13 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:53 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorHousecall
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 7%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (10)
x_refsource_MISCx_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://esupport.trendmicro.com/support/viewxml.do?ContentID=EN-1038646&id=EN-1038646Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/31337x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-32/Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Source: [email protected]
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4802Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/541025Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499495/100/0/threadedQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-94
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