McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator/ProtectionPilot Management Agent integer coercion

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and ProtectionPilot. It has been declared as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Management Agent. Such manipulation leads to integer coercion. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2006-5274. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and ProtectionPilot (Endpoint Management Software) (version now known) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Management Agent. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a integer coercion vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-192. Integer coercion refers to a set of flaws pertaining to the type casting, extension, or truncation of primitive data types. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Integer overflow in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.5 through 3.6.1, ProtectionPilot 1.1.1 and 1.5, and Common Management Agent (CMA) 3.5.5.438 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CMA Framework service crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

The bug was discovered 07/10/2007. The weakness was presented 07/10/2007 by Neel Mehta with IBM ISS X-Force (Website). The advisory is available at knowledge.mcafee.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-5274 since 10/13/2006. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 25702 (McAfee Common Management Agent < 3.6.0.546 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 42004 (McAfee Common Management Agent Framework Service Crash).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (35304), Tenable (25702), SecurityFocus (BID 24863†), OSVDB (36101†) and Secunia (SA26029†). See VDB-37777, VDB-37776 and VDB-37775 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Integer coercion
CWE: CWE-192 / CWE-189
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Nessus ID: 25702
Nessus Name: McAfee Common Management Agent < 3.6.0.546 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mcafee.com

Advisory: knowledge.mcafee.com
Researcher: Neel Mehta
Organization: IBM ISS X-Force
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-5274 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-5274
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-37778
X-Force: 35304
SecurityFocus: 24863 - McAfee Common Management Agent (CMA) Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 26029
OSVDB: 36101 - McAfee Multiple Products ePolicy Orchestrator CMA Framework Service Remote Overflow
SecurityTracker: 1018363
Vulnerability Center: 15603 - McAfee Common Management Agent Integer Overflow Allows Code Execution with System Privileges, Critical
Vupen: ADV-2007-2498

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/15/2015 15:58
Updated: 06/15/2025 22:34
Changes: 03/15/2015 15:58 (73), 07/22/2019 09:06 (11), 06/15/2025 22:34 (18)
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