Check Point Advisories

CA XOsoft Multiple Products xosoapapi.asmx Buffer Overflow (CVE-2010-1223)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2010-361
Date Published:	3 Aug 2010
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Tuesday 03 August, 2010
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2010-1223
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	CA 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. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in CA XOsoft multiple products. The vulnerability is due to an insufficient boundary checking when handling certain HTTP requests sent to the ws_man.exe process. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by sending a malicious HTTP request to a target server. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in execution of arbitrary code on a vulnerable system and may cause the vulnerable application may terminate abnormally.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block malicious HTTP request sent to the vulnerable server.

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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the CA XOsoft Multiple Products xosoapapi.asmx Buffer Overflow protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information: CA XOsoft multiple products xosoapapi.asmx buffer overflow