Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer Memory Corruption Vulnerability II

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a Memory Corruption vulnerability in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer.

SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer (VEV) is a free 3D visualization viewer for Windows. VEV allows collaboration, analytics, as well as assembly and maintenance work instructions to be delivered in interactive real-time 3D. VEV can run Standalone, in HTML, in MS Office, and or embedded in a variety of SAP Solutions.

A memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer. The vulnerability can be triggered by a crafted DDS file which causes an out-of-bounds write, due to improper bounds checking. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could grant an attacker remote code execution.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

SAP.3D.Visual.Enterprise.Viewer.Memory.Corruption.II
Released Nov 18, 2016

Users should apply the solution provided by SAP.

Additional Information

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to SAP on October 13, 2016.

SAP patched the vulnerability on March 8, 2017.

References

• https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=451071888
  

  https://blogs.sap.com/2016/03/08/sap-security-patch-day-march-2016/
  

  
  

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

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