Check Point Advisories

Oracle Secure Backup observiced.exe Buffer Overflow (CVE-2010-0072)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2010-390
Date Published:	5 Sep 2010
Severity:	Critical
Last Updated:	Monday 06 January, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2010-0072
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Oracle Secure Backup is a backup solution allowing for centralized tape backup management. The server allows for single point of management of data present on network attached storage (NAS) devices and distributed hosts which may have different operating systems. A stack buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Oracle Secure Backup. The flaw is due to a boundary error in the daemon observiced.exe. A remote attacker could exploit this issue by sending a carefully crafted requests to the affected service. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in execution of arbitrary code within the security context of the SYSTEM user.

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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Oracle Secure Backup observiced.exe 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: Web Server Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Oracle Secure Backup observiced.exe buffer overflow