CA BrightStor Hierarchical Storage Manager up to 11.4 Agent Service memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in CA BrightStor Hierarchical Storage Manager up to 11.4. This affects an unknown part of the component Agent Service. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2007-5083. Additionally, an exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in CA BrightStor Hierarchical Storage Manager up to 11.4. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Agent Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple integer overflows in Computer Associates (CA) BrightStor Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) before r11.6 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified CsAgent service commands that trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.

The bug was discovered 09/26/2007. The weakness was released 10/01/2007 by Aaron Portnoy (Website). The advisory is shared at ca.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2007-5083 since 09/25/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 26914 (BrightStor Hierarchical Storage Manager < r11.6 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context r.

Upgrading to version 11.5 eliminates this vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 4922.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (36827), Tenable (26914), SecurityFocus (BID 25823†), OSVDB (41364†) and Secunia (SA26914†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-39042 and VDB-39040. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 26914
Nessus Name: BrightStor Hierarchical Storage Manager < r11.6 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: BrightStor Hierarchical Storage Manager 11.5
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: ca.com

Advisory: ca.com
Researcher: Aaron Portnoy
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2007-5083 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-5083
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-39041
X-Force: 36827
SecurityFocus: 25823 - Computer Associates BrightStor Hierarchical Storage Manager CsAgent Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 26914
OSVDB: 41364 - CVE-2007-5083 - CA - BrightStor Hierarchical Storage Manager - Multiple Integer Overflow Issues
SecurityTracker: 1018747
Vulnerability Center: 16263 - BrightStor Hierarchical Storage Manager Integer Overflow Allows Code Execution with Root Privileges, Critical
Vupen: ADV-2007-3275

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/16/2015 12:18
Updated: 07/27/2019 09:41
Changes: 03/16/2015 12:18 (85), 07/27/2019 09:41 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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