Notified:  November 13, 2007 Updated: January 16, 2008

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

This vulnerability is addressed in automatic updates provided by AOL, which remove the AmpX control and AOLMediaPlaybackControl.exe. AOL update 4194.13.4 contains the fix for US versions of AOL, and 4195.9.4 contains the fix for International versions. This update is also available as a manual install as the Unagi update. The AmpX ActiveX control version 2.6.2.6 also prevents the buffer overflow vulnerability in AOLMediaPlaybackControl.exe from being reached. If you are unable to apply an update, please consider the workarounds listed in this vulnerability note.