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Secunia Advisory SA27299

CA ARCserve Backup RPC "handle_t" Argument Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA27299

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Release Date

2008-12-11

Popularity

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

System access

Where

From local network

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Secunia PoC

Available in Customer Area

Secunia analysis

Available in Customer Area

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

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Available in Customer Area

Software:

BrightStor ARCserve Backup 11.x

BrightStor ARCserve Backup 11.x (for Windows)

CA ARCserve Backup 12.x

CA Server Protection Suite r2

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2008-5415 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in BrightStor ARCserve Backup, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to insufficient validation of "handle_t" arguments passed to RPC endpoints. Passing object pointers to procedures that expect different types can result in arbitrary code execution.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version r11.5 SP4 build 4491. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Apply patches (please see the CA advisory for details).

Provided and/or discovered by
Dyon Balding, Secunia Research.

Original Advisory
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-82/

CA:
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=194293

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