Check Point Advisories

CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup Message Engine Opcode 47 Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-0169)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2007-220
Date Published:	12 Oct 2009
Severity:	Critical
Last Updated:	Monday 12 October, 2009
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2007-0169
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup and Business Protection Suite families of software products offer data protection for distributed servers, clients, databases and applications. They provide centralized control over a series of distributed operations including backup and restore, data migration and threat management. There exists a vulnerability in various Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup products. The flaw is due to insufficient checks of user supplied data inside requests sent to the Message Engine service. A remote unauthenticated attacker may leverage this vulnerability to inject and execute arbitrary code on the target host with System level privileges. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, exceptions might be triggered. As a result, the affected service terminates abnormally. In a more sophisticated attack, where code injection is successful, the behaviour of the target is entirely dependent on the intended function of the injected code. The code in such a case would execute within the security context of the service process. On Windows systems, the affected service is running with System privileges, by default configuration.

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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup Message Engine Opcode 47 Buffer Overflow protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: CA Products Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup message engine opcode 47 buffer overflow