Secunia Research: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Remote Agent Service Buffer Overflows
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Secunia Research 04/05/2009
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Remote Agent Service Buffer Overflows -
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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
* IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express Client 5.3.6.2
NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: Local network
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3) Vendor's Description of Software
"IBM Tivoli Storage Manager family of offerings are designed to
provide centralized, automated data protection".
Product Link:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/storage-mgr/
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4) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in IBM Tivoli
Storage Manager Agent Client (dsmagent.exe), which can be exploited by
malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
1) A boundary error in a generic string handling function when parsing
strings from request packets can be exploited to cause stack-based
buffer overflow.
2) A boundary error when copying the NodeName from a request packet in
dicuGetIdentifyRequest can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer
overflow.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
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5) Solution
Apply patches.
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6) Time Table
13/11/2008 - Vendor notified.
18/11/2008 - Vendor response.
20/11/2008 - Vendor asks for additional information.
20/11/2008 - Clarification of the two problems provided to the vendor.
26/11/2008 - Vendor provides status update.
02/02/2009 - Vendor provides status update.
24/02/2009 - Vendor provides status update.
31/03/2009 - Status update requested.
31/03/2009 - Vendor provides status update.
04/05/2009 - 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-2008-4828 for the vulnerabilities.
IBM (IC59513, IC59994, IC59779, IC59781):
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21384389
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10) Verification
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