Bentley Microstation Insecure Library Loading Vulnerability

Secunia ID	SA41106
Release Date	02 Sep 2010
Criticality	Highly Critical
Solution Status	Unpatched
Software	MicroStation 7.x
Where	From remote
Impact	System access This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.
Description	A vulnerability has been reported in Bentley Microstation, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to the application loading libraries (e.g. mptools.dll, baseman.dll, wintab32.dll) in an insecure manner. This can be exploited to load arbitrary libraries by tricking a user into e.g. opening HLN or RDL files located on a remote WebDAV or SMB share. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code. The vulnerability is reported in version 7.1. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution	Do not open untrusted files.
Reported by	Kalyan
Original Advisory	http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-08/0320.html