Check Point Advisories

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Framework Services HTTP Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-1855)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2008-402
Date Published: 18 Dec 2009
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Thursday 11 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2008-1855
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description McAfee Corporation is a major vendor of numerous anti-virus, network, and desktop security products which are deployed in consumer as well as enterprise environments. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is a central security management system to manage security policy, assess and enforce policy, notify user, etc. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in McAfee Framework Services used in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and other products. Specifically, the vulnerability is due to a boundary error when handling of HTTP requests passed to the port 8081/TCP of the product. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request to the target host. A successful exploitation of this vulnerability can allow for code execution with the privileges of the affected service, or cause a denial of service condition. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the affected service will terminate abnormally. In a more sophisticated attack 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 affected service, normally 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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Framework Services HTTP 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:  Security Products Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator framework services HTTP buffer overflow

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