Secunia Research: HP OpenView Products Shared Trace Service Denial of Service
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Secunia Research 22/10/2008
- HP OpenView Products Shared Trace Service Denial of Service -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Description of Vulnerability.........................................3
Solution.............................................................4
Time Table...........................................................5
Credits..............................................................6
References...........................................................7
About Secunia........................................................8
Verification.........................................................9
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1) Affected Software
* HP OpenView Report 3.70
* HP Performance Agent 4.70
NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Less critical
Impact: Denial of Service
Where: Local network
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3) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in various HP
products, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).
The HP OpenView Trace Service exposes an RPC service on TCP port 5051
or 5053 that does not require authentication. By sending a particular
sequence of RPC requests, an object is incorrectly referenced, which
may cause a memory reference beyond an allocated buffer.
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4) Solution
Restrict access to the service.
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5) Time Table
15/10/2007 - Vendor contacted.
16/10/2007 - Vendor response.
10/06/2008 - Status update requested.
12/08/2008 - Status update requested.
12/08/2008 - Vendor responds with expected release date before end
of September.
22/10/2008 - Public disclosure.
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6) Credits
Discovered by Dyon Balding, Secunia Research.
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7) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2007-4349 for the vulnerability.
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9) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
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