Check Point Advisories

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Framework Services Log Handling Format String (CVE-2008-1357)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2008-269
Date Published: 9 Feb 2010
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Tuesday 09 February, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2008-1357
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. There exists a Format String vulnerability in McAfee Framework Services used in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and other products. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted UDP packet 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 case of an attack where code injection is not successful, the affected service will terminate abnormally. In case of an 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 Log Handling Format String 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 log handling format string

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