Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:11043

Info

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11043
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0798
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 25 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 01 2008 07:07PM
Credit: The individual responsible for discovery of this issue is currently unknown.
Vulnerable: Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 8.0 3
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 8.0 1
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 8.0
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 7.0 4
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 7.0 3
Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 7.0
Not Vulnerable: Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 8.0 3 hotfix 1

Discussion

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold is affected by a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to properly validate user-supplied string lengths before copying them into static process buffers.

An attacker might leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code on the affected computer with the privileges of the user that started the vulnerable application.

Exploit / POC

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following exploit code is available as a module for the Metasploit Framework:

Solution / Fix

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an upgrade dealing with this issue.


Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 7.0 4

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 7.0 3

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 7.0

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 8.0

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 8.0 1

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 8.0 3

References

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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