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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Source Header Buffer Overflow
Secunia Advisory: SA22222
Release Date: 2006-10-02
Last Update: 2006-10-05
Popularity: 13,222 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.x
McAfee ProtectionPilot 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-5156


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in McAfee ProtectionPilot and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of long source headers. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and potentially allows to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted request to a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability has been reported in McAfee ProtectionPilot 1.1.0 and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.5.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Apply patches.

McAfee ProtectionPilot:
http://download.nai.com/products/patches/protectionpilot/v1.1.1/PRP1113.zip

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator:
http://download.nai.com/products/patches/ePO/v3.5/EPO3506.zip

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Mati Aharoni and Moti Joseph.

Changelog:
2006-10-05: Added US-CERT reference.

Original Advisory:
http://download.nai.com/products/patches/protectionpilot/v1.1.1/PRP1113.txt
http://download.nai.com/products/patches/ePO/v3.5/EPO3506.txt

Other References:
US-CERT VU#842452:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/842452


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