Anil Pazvant has reported a vulnerability in Logica HotScan, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the HotScan listener interface and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted packet.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution
Reportedly a patch has been released. Contact the vendor for further information.

Provided and/or discovered by
Anil Pazvant

Original Advisory
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0051.html

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