Check Point Advisories

CA Alert Notification Server RPC Request Buffer Overflow (CVE-2007-3825)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-297
Date Published: 2 Nov 2010
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Tuesday 02 November, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-3825
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Computer Associates, or CA, develop and sell various software to enterprise users. Several products, such as the Threat Manager, Protection Suites, and BrightStor ARCserve Backup share a set of common components. One of these common component is the Alert Notification Server. This component is run as a Windows service. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in the way CA Alert Notification Server handles RPC requests. The vulnerability is due to lack of boundary protection while processing RPC calls. .A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition or inject and execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system within the security context of the affected service, normally System. In case of an attack where code injection and execution is successful, the behavior of the target will depend on the intention of the attacker. Any code injected will be executed with System privileges on the targeted host. In case of an attack where code injection is unsuccessful, CA Alert Notification Server will be terminated.

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 CA Alert Notification Server RPC Request 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:  CA Products Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  CA Alert Notification server RPC request buffer overflow

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