CA Multiple Products Discovery Service Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:20364

Info

CA Multiple Products Discovery Service Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 20364
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2006-5142
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 02 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 22 2006 10:15PM
Credit: livesploit.com is credited with discovering this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Computer Associates Server Protection Suite r2
Computer Associates Business Protection Suite for Microsoft SBS Std Ed r2
Computer Associates Business Protection Suite for Microsoft SBS Pre ed r2
Computer Associates Business Protection Suite r2
Computer Associates BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5
Computer Associates BrightStor ARCServe Backup for Windows 11.0
Computer Associates BrightStor ARCServe Backup 11.5
Computer Associates BrightStor ARCServe Backup 11.1
Computer Associates BrightStor ARCServe Backup 9.01
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

CA Multiple Products Discovery Service Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Multiple Computer Associates products are prone to a remote stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability.

This issue arises because these applications fail to perform boundary checks before copying user-supplied data into insufficiently sized buffers.

A successful attack may result in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the affected application.

This issue affects client and server versions of the affected products.

Exploit / POC

CA Multiple Products Discovery Service Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

An exploit for this vulnerability has been used to attack the DeepSight honeypot network. This exploit is not currently known to be publicly available.

Solution / Fix

CA Multiple Products Discovery Service Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an advisory along with fixes to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

References

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