Check Point Advisories

CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup XDR Parsing Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-2242)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2008-298
Date Published: 8 Apr 2010
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Thursday 08 April, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2008-2242
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup products offer data protection for distributed servers, clients, databases and applications. They provide centralized control over a series of distributed operations including Backup and Restore, Data Migration, and Threat Management. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup. The vulnerability is due to insufficient boundary checking in a certain function. A remote unauthenticated attacker may exploit this vulnerability by sending a long parameter into a daemon using this function to process strings. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system in the context of the affected application, commonly System. In an attack case 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 process. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the affected service process will terminate abnormally.

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 BrightStor ARCserve Backup XDR Parsing 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:  SUN-RPC Enforcement Protection.
Attack Information:  CA BrightStor ARCserve backup XDR parsing buffer overflow

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