Check Point Advisories

Symantec VERITAS Storage Foundation Administrator Service Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-0638)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2008-260
Date Published: 1 Nov 2009
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Sunday 01 November, 2009
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2008-0638
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Symantec VERITAS Storage Foundation, provides a complete solution for heterogeneous online storage management. Storage Foundation Management Server allows centralized storage management capabilities across a broad array of operating systems and storage hardware. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in Symantec VERITAS Storage Foundation suite. The flaw is due to a boundary error when processing overly large messages. A remote unauthenticated attacker may leverage this vulnerability to create a denial of service condition of the affected service, or inject and execute arbitrary code on the target host with System level privileges. If a code injection attack attempt is performed and is unsuccessful, the affected service will terminate abnormally, creating a denial of service. If a code execution attempt is carried out successfully, the behaviour of the target host is dependent on the intention of the injected code. The injected code is executed with System level privileges.

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 Symantec VERITAS Storage Foundation Administrator Service Buffer Overflow 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:  Symantec VERITAS Storage Foundation administrator service buffer overflow

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