Check Point Advisories

IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express Universal Agent Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-2137)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2007-368
Date Published:	17 Dec 2009
Severity:	Critical
Last Updated:	Sunday 07 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2007-2137
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express allows management of performance and availability of business systems and application resources. It features centralized and simplified management facilities to identify resources, applications, and network problems. It can build both real time and historical reports to diagnose system errors. Tivoli Monitoring Services is the framework for IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express. Tivoli Monitoring Express consists of Enterprise Monitoring Agent, Enterprise Monitoring Server, Enterprise Portal Server and Enterprise Portal. There exists a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express. The flaw is due to a boundary error in the Universal Agent and various other components of Tivoli product while processing specially crafted user-supplied input. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a malicious input to one of the vulnerable services. In an attack case where code injection is not successful the affected service will terminate abnormally. In a more sophisticated attack case, where code injection is successful, the behavior 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, usually System.

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 IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express Universal Agent 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: IBM Tivoli Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express universal agent buffer overflow