Secunia Research: McAfee E-Business Server Auth Packet Handling Buffer Overflow

From: Secunia Research <remove-vuln(at)secunia.com>
Date: Wed Oct 31 2007 - 05:00:43 EDT

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                     Secunia Research 31/10/2007

• McAfee E-Business Server Auth Packet Handling Buffer Overflow -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10

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1) Affected Software

McAfee E-Business Server for Linux version 8.1.1.

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected. However, while the usage is identical between the Linux and Windows versions of E-Business server, Windows is not vulnerable due to the differing socket implementations.

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2) Severity

Rating: Moderately critical
Impact: Local network
Where: System compromise

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

"McAfee E-Business Server secures batch processes and protects sensitive company data and network traffic with 128-bit encryption and authentication, everywhere it is accessed, transferred, and stored".

Product Link:
http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/encryption/ebusiness_server.html

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in McAfee E-Business Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow within the e-Business administration utility service when parsing authentication packets. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted authentication packet with an overly large length value.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

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5) Solution

Install E-Business Server 8.5.3 for Solaris Install E-Business Server 8.1.2 for Linux, HP-UX, AIX

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6) Time Table

13/08/2007 - Vendor notified.
13/08/2007 - Vendor response.
31/10/2007 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits

Discovered by Dyon Balding, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned CVE-2007-2957 for the vulnerability.

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1. Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-69/

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Received on Wed Oct 31 11:31:24 2007