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Compaq Insight Management Agent Format String Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA9453
Release Date: 2003-08-06
Popularity: 9,462 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:HP / Compaq Insight Management Agents

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Compaq Insight Management Agent, which may possibly allow malicious people to execute arbitrary code.

The problem is that the Compaq Insight Management Agent doesn't handle long requests containing format specifiers.

Example:
"GET /<\x21.DebugSearchPaths>?Url=a_long_string_with_malicious_characters".

This has been reported to affect version 5.00H and possibly earlier versions.

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