MW6 Technologies Multiple ActiveX controls Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
MW6 Aztec ActiveX
MW6 DataMatrix
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 65038
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2013-6040

MW6 Technologies is a provider of bar code label design software, bar code decoding and encoding libraries, bar code fonts, and serial communication libraries.

Multiple ActiveX Controls of MW6 Technologies, including bar code processing controls MaxiCode, Aztec, and DataMatrix, have multiple vulnerabilities in implementation. Remote attackers can trick users into opening special HTML documents, attackers can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code.

<* Source: Pedro Ribeiro

Link: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/219470
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Suggestion:
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Temporary solution:

If you cannot install or upgrade the patch immediately, NSFOCUS recommends that you take the following measures to reduce the threat:

* Disable the ActiveX control in IE and disable the kill bit of the following CLSID:

{2355C601-37D1-42B4-BEB1-03C773298DC8}
{F359732D-D020-40ED-83FF-F381EFE36B54}
{DE7DA0B5-7D7B-4CEA-8739-65CF600D511E}

Vendor patch:

MW6
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Currently, the vendor does not provide patches or upgrade programs. We recommend that users who use the software follow the vendor's homepage to obtain the latest version:

Http://www.mw6tech.com/aztec/aztec.html