Check Point Advisories

CA ARCserve Backup Authentication Service Denial of Service (CVE-2012-2972)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2012-825
Date Published:	1 Dec 2012
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Monday 03 December, 2012
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2012-2972
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	A denial of service vulnerability has been reported in the CA ARCserve Backup authentication service. The vulnerability is due to a NULL pointer dereference error while processing specially crafted SunRPC requests. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request to the affected service. Successful exploitation would cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

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 CA ARCserve Backup Authentication Service Denial of Service 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: CA Products Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: CA ARCserve Backup Authentication Service Denial of Service