Check Point Advisories

HP Diagnostics magentservice.exe Code Execution (CVE-2011-4789)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2012-206
Date Published: 14 May 2012
Severity: High
Last Updated: Friday 22 November, 2024
Source: CVE-2011-4789
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R75
Who is Vulnerable? HP Diagnostics 9.10
Vulnerability Description A stack buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in HP Diagnostics.
Vulnerability DetailsThe vulnerability is due to insufficient validation by magentservice.exe. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by sending a specially crafted message to the vulnerable service. Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the security context of the affected service.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block specially crafted messages.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your product to the latest update. For information on how to update , go to SBP-2006-05, Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the HP Diagnostics magentservice.exe Code Execution protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all modules.

SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: HP Products Protection Violation
Attack Information: HP Diagnostics magentservice.exe Code Execution

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