Check Point Advisories

IBM Director CIM Server Consumer Name Handling Denial of Service (CVE-2009-0879)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2009-336
Date Published: 9 Dec 2009
Severity: High
Last Updated: Tuesday 10 November, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2009-0879
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description IBM Director is an element management system, previously known as Netfinity Director that was designed by IBM based on Tivoli IT Director. It consists of three components: agent, administering console, and server. The agent software is installed on systems to be monitored and other components reside on the server. One of the server side components is the Common Information Model (CIM) Listener process. A design weakness exists in the CIM Server of IBM Director. The vulnerability is due to errors when processing certain types of requests. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted requests to the target host. Successful exploitation would be a denial of service (DoS) condition of System Director services on the target host. In a successful attack case, the affected server will terminate and will not be available until the service is manually restarted.

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 IBM Director CIM Server Consumer Name Handling Denial of Service 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:  IBM Director CIM server consumer name handling denial of service

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