Check Point Advisories

LANDesk Management Suite QIP Service Heal Packet Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-2468)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2008-344
Date Published: 16 Feb 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2008-2468
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description LANDesk Management Suite automates systems and security management tasks for desktops, servers, and mobile devices. Each LANDesk management domain consists of a core server and multiple devices (systems) that are managed by the core server. LANDesk Management Suite installation comes with a service named Intel QIP service. There exists a memory corruption vulnerability in LANDesk QIP service. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation when processing specially crafted heal requests. In case of a successful exploitation, a remote unauthenticated attacker can inject and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the affected service, normally System. The behaviour of the target will depend on the injected code. In the case of an unsuccessful code execution attack, the service will be terminated due to memory corruption, causing Denial of Service.

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 LANDesk Management Suite QIP Service Heal Packet 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:  LANDesk Management Suite Enforcement.
Attack Information:  LANDesk Management Suite QIP Service heal packet buffer overflow

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