Thursday | 8 January, 2009
ActiveX control stack buffer overflow vulnerability revealed
From Secunia:
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Microgaming Download Helper ActiveX Control (dlhelper.dll), which can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when a user visits a malicious website. Users are advised to update to version 7.2.0.19 of the software.
More information is available from US-CERT.
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