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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Common Management Agent Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA26029
Release Date: 2007-07-11
Popularity: 9,679 views

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

Binary Analysis: BA194 :: Available for 1 Credit

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-5271
CVE-2006-5272
CVE-2006-5273
CVE-2006-5274


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.

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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