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TIBCO SmartSockets Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA28490  
Release Date: 2008-01-16

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

Software:TIBCO Enterprise Message Service 4.x
TIBCO SmartSockets 6.x
TIBCO SmartSockets Product Family (RTworks) 4.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-5655 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-5656 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-5657 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-5658 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in TIBCO SmartSockets, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) Input validation errors in the RTserver component when handling requests, which uses values in the request as pointers, pointer offsets, or loop bounds, can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

2) Input validation errors in the RTserver component when handling requests can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities affect the following products and versions:
* TIBCO SmartSockets versions prior to 6.8.1
* TIBCO SmartSockets Product Family (RTworks) versions prior to 4.0.4
* TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) versions 4.0.0 to 4.4.1 if the SmartSockets support is enabled (not enabled by default)
* Applications using the TipcConnAccept interface

Solution:
Update to the latest versions:
* TIBCO SmartSockets version 6.8.1 or later
* TIBCO RTworks version 4.0.4 or later
* TIBCO EMS version 4.4.2 or later

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Independently discovered by:
* McSlibin
* Sean Larsson, VeriSign iDefense Labs
2) McSlibin

Original Advisory:
TIBCO:
http://www.tibco.com/mk/smartsockets-sspfm-ems_advisory_20080115.jsp
http://www.tibco.com/resources/mk/smartsockets_security_advisory_20080115.txt
http://www.tibco.com/resources/mk/sspfm_security_advisory_20080115.txt
http://www.tibco.com/resources/mk/ems_security_advisory_20080115.txt

iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=638
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=639
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=640
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=641



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1 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. TIBCO Enterprise Message Service Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities


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