Check Point Advisories

EMC Dantz Retrospect Backup Agent Denial of Service (CVE-2006-0995)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2006-164
Date Published: 26 Oct 2009
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 26 October, 2009
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2006-0995
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description The EMC Retrospect Backup product suite is based on an agent and server model. The backup server can initiate backups, backup remote client machine, as well perform scheduled backups. The agent component is installed on a machine that is to be backed up by the server. The agent can be made to initiate backups by contacting the server and requesting operations to be performed, or it can be contacted by the server for server initiated backup operations. A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the EMC Retrospect Backup agent. This vulnerability is a result of improper handling of specially crafted packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to terminate, preventing the backups from occurring on that system. Upon processing the crafted message, the Retrospect Backup client agent process terminates. A Retrospect Backup server can no longer connect to the target and perform backup operations. The affected service must be restarted to resume functionality.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the EMC Dantz Retrospect Backup Agent Denial of Service protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  EMC Dantz Retrospect backup agent denial of service

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