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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Common Management Agent Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA26029  
Release Date: 2007-07-11

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

Software:McAfee Common Management Agent (CMA) 3.x
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.x
McAfee ProtectionPilot 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-5271 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-5272 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-5273 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2006-5274 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Neel Mehta has reported some vulnerabilities in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and ProtectionPilot, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An integer underflow error can be exploited to cause a memory corruption and execute arbitrary code.

2) A boundary error within the processing of pings can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted packet.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows execution of arbitrary code.

3) A boundary error can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted packet.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows execution of arbitrary code.

4) An integer overflow error can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code.

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Solution:
Apply patches. Please see the vendor's advisories for details.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Neel Mehta, IBM ISS X-Force.

Changelog:
2007-07-11: Added "McAfee Common Management Agent (CMA)" in affected product list.

Original Advisory:
IBM ISS X-Force:
http://www.iss.net/threats/269.html

McAfee:
https://knowledge.mcafee.com/article/761/613364_f.SAL_Public.html
https://knowledge.mcafee.com/article/762/613365_f.SAL_Public.html
https://knowledge.mcafee.com/article/763/613366_f.SAL_Public.html
https://knowledge.mcafee.com/article/764/613367_f.SAL_Public.html



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9 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. McAfee Common Management Agent Framework Service Denial of Service
2. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Framework Service Format String Vulnerability
3. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot ActiveX Control Buffer Overflows
4. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Source Header Buffer Overflow
5. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Directory Traversal Vulnerability
6. ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Insecure Directory Permissions
7. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator HTTP POST Request Handling Vulnerability
8. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Invalid "Content-Length:" Denial of Service
9. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Multiple Vulnerabilities


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