Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers Cisco WebEx Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability III

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Cisco WebEx Player.

Cisco WebEx Player is a free tool to watch, share, and edit Cisco WebEx recordings developed and published by Cisco Systems for macOS and Windows.

A memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered in Cisco WebEx Player. The vulnerability is caused by a crafted wrf file which causes an out of bounds memory access. It could allow malicious users to create code execution scenarios.

Solutions

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

Cisco.WebEx.Player.wrf.File.Handling.Memory.Corruption.III
Released Jun 29, 2017

Users should apply the solution provided by Cisco Systems.

Additional Information

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Cisco on April 11, 2017.

Cisco released patch for it on November 29, 2017.

References

Acknowledgement

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

IPS Subscription

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