Realsecure CGI Attack Subversion Vulnerability

BID:1023

Info

Realsecure CGI Attack Subversion Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1023
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 01 2000 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 01 2000 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was discovered by Stephane AUBERT <[email protected]> and posted to the Bugtraq mailing list on February 29, 2000.
Vulnerable: Internet Security Systems RealSecure 3.2.1999
Internet Security Systems RealSecure 3.2
Internet Security Systems RealSecure 3.1
Internet Security Systems RealSecure 3.0
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP3
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP2
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP1
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

Realsecure CGI Attack Subversion Vulnerability

./whisker.pl -h xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt -I 1246
./whisker.pl -h xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt -I 0 -M 2
./whisker.pl -h xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt -I 6 -M 2
./whisker.pl -h xxx.yyy.zzz.ttt -I 60 -M 2

Please see the 'Credit' section of this entry for the URL to the Whisker scanning tool.

Solution / Fix

Realsecure CGI Attack Subversion Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently the SecurityFocus staff 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].

Internet Security Systems was notified of this problem on February 14, 2000. Their response was as follows:

"Thanks for your in depth analysis of our RealSecure Teardrop signature. We rarely get such detailed reports and they are very much appreciated. Now that we are aware of the issue, we've logged this as a bug so we can address it in an upcoming release.

We haven't tested RealSecure against Whisker, but now that brought this to our attention we can add it to our product test plan. We work very hard to test our products against as many known attacks as possible and information like this allows us to improve our test plan with every release.

Please feel free to provide us feedback like this in the future as it helps us make a better product for all our customers."

References

Realsecure CGI Attack Subversion Vulnerability

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