WellinTech KingHistorian 3.0 resource management

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A vulnerability was found in WellinTech KingHistorian 3.0. It has been rated as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

WellinTech KingHistorian 3.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer write) via a crafted packet to TCP port 5678.

The weakness was presented 07/04/2012 by Dillon Beresford (Website). The advisory is shared for download at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2012-2559 since 05/09/2012. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 04/14/2017).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (76761). See 61209, 61205 and 61204 for similar entries.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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05/09/2012 🔍
07/03/2012 +55 days 🔍
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07/24/2012 +20 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +972 days 🔍
04/14/2017 +753 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Dillon Beresford
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2012-2559 (🔍)
X-Force: 76761
Vulnerability Center: 35642 - WellinTech KingHistorian 3.0 Remote Code Execution or DoS Vulnerability via a Crafted Packet, High
SecurityFocus: 54282 - WellinTech KingHistorian Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 04/14/2017 14:45
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (48), 04/14/2017 14:45 (10)
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