Check Point Advisories

ToolTalk rpc.ttdbserverd Database Parser Heap Overflow (CVE-2010-0083)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2010-220
Date Published: 14 Jul 2010
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Wednesday 14 July, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2010-0083
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70, R65
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description ToolTalk is a communications system developed by Sun Microsystems in order to allow applications to communicate with each other at runtime. A heap overflow vulnerability has been discovered in the ToolTalk database server. The vulnerability is located within a function of the ToolTalk database server (rpc.ttdbserverd). This vulnerability can be exploited to cause a heap overflow via a specially crafted database (.rec) file. Successful exploitation of this issue could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block malformed database (.rec) files.

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 / R71 / R70 / R65

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the ToolTalk rpc.ttdbserverd Database Parser Heap 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:  ToolTalk rpc.ttdbserverd database parser heap overflow

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