Computer Associates Products Message Engine RPC Server Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

BID:20365

Info

Computer Associates Products Message Engine RPC Server Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 20365
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2006-5143
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Oct 05 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Sep 08 2008 03:31PM
Credit: livesploit.com is credited with the discovery of these vulnerabilities.
Vulnerable: Computer Associates Server Protection Suite r2
Computer Associates Business Protection Suite r2
Computer Associates BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5
Computer Associates BrightStor ARCServe Backup 11.5
Computer Associates BrightStor ARCServe Backup 9.01
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Computer Associates Products Message Engine RPC Server Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Multiple Computer Associates products are prone to multiple buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because the applications using an affected library fail to properly bounds-check user-supplied input before copying it to an insufficiently sized memory buffer.

Exploiting these issues allows attackers to execute arbitrary machine code within the context of the affected application.

Exploit / POC

Computer Associates Products Message Engine RPC Server Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

UPDATE: Core Security Technologies has developed a working commercial exploit for its CORE IMPACT product. This exploit is not otherwise publicly available or known to be circulating in the wild.

The following exploit is available:

Solution / Fix

Computer Associates Products Message Engine RPC Server Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released fixes for these issues. Please see the references for details on how to obtain and apply fixes.

Computer Associates has released an updated advisory that includes new fixes that must be applied in addition to the fixes released earlier. The vendor has reported that this is required because the original fixes failed to address one of the vulnerabilities.

References

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