Native Instruments Kontakt 4 Player v4.1.3 Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability

Title: Native Instruments Kontakt 4 Player v4.1.3 Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability
Advisory ID: ZSL-2010-4976
Type: Local/Remote
Impact: System Access
Risk: (5/5)
Release Date: 20.11.2010
Summary
KONTAKT 4 PLAYER is the free sample player based on award-winning KONTAKT technology. Expanding the capabilities of its successful predecessor, the free KONTAKT 4 PLAYER allows for innovative, highly playable instruments leaving technological and musical limitations behind.
Description
Kontakt Player 4 suffers from a DLL hijacking vulnerability, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused due to the application insecurely loading certain libraries ("libjack.dll") from the current working directory, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening specific related files (.ncw, .nki, .nkm and .nks) from a network share.
Vendor
Native Instruments GmbH - http://www.native-instruments.com
Affected Version
4.1.3.4125 (Standalone)
Tested On
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (English)
Vendor Status
[06.11.2010] Vulnerability discovered.
[09.11.2010] Contact with the vendor.
[09.11.2010] Vendor replies.
[09.11.2010] Explained to the vendor that we want to report a vulnerability.
[09.11.2010] Vendor answers in confusion.
[09.11.2010] Explained in details what this is all about.
[10.11.2010] Vendor informs the corresponding department and stated that if they're interested, they'll contact us.
[18.11.2010] Nobody gets in touch with us.
[19.11.2010] Informed the vendor that the public disclosure will occur on 20th of November.
[20.11.2010] Public advisory released.
PoC
kontakt4_dll.c
Credits
Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko Krstic - <gjoko@zeroscience.mk>
References
[1] http://www.exploit-db.com/dll-hijacking-vulnerable-applications/
[2] http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/96002
[3] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44989
[4] http://secunia.com/advisories/42371/
[5] http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/61321
[6] http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/69487
Changelog
[20.11.2010] - Initial release
[22.11.2010] - Added reference [1], [2], [3] and [4]
[24.11.2010] - Added reference [5]
[27.11.2010] - Added reference [6]
Contact
Zero Science Lab

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