Check Point Advisories

CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup Discovery Service Denial of Service (CVE-2008-1979)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2008-289
Date Published:	12 Nov 2009
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Thursday 13 December, 2012
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2008-1979
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Computer Associates' (CA) BrightStor ARCserve Backup and Business Protection Suite families of software offer data protection for distributed servers, clients, databases and applications. They provide centralized control over a series of distribution operations including Backup/Restore, Data Migration and Threat Management. There exists a denial of service vulnerability in CA ARCserve Backup Discovery service. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation by the Discovery service. A remote unauthenticated attacker may exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted message to the target server. Successful attack could create a denial of service condition to the Discovery service. The affected ARCserve Backup Discovery service will terminate upon processing the malicious message. The service will restart automatically. If the attack is mounted continuously, a permanent denial-of-service condition could be created.

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 Discovery Service Denial of Service 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 Discovery Service denial of service