Check Point Advisories

IBM Director Agent Denial of Service

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2004-133
Date Published:	14 Apr 2010
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Wednesday 14 April, 2010
Source:
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	There is a vulnerability within IBM Director Agent, a tool released by IBM to monitor and control computer systems remotely. It is possible for a remote attacker to craft and send a packet that will cause the remote Agent to terminate leading to a denial of service condition. Upon receipt of a malformed request from an attacker, the director agent service will terminate on the target computer. An administrator will then be unable to connect to the remote agent through the IBM Director interface until the agent is restarted on the target computer.

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 Director Agent 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: IBM Protection Violation.
Attack Information: IBM Director agent denial of service