Security Advisory SA9593 - Helix Universal Server Remotely Exploitable Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA9593

Helix Universal Server Remotely Exploitable Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA9593

Release Date

2003-08-25

Last Update

2003-09-15

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

Helix Universal Server 9.x

RealServer G2

RealSystem Server 7

RealSystem Server 8

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CVE Reference(s)

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Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Helix Universal Server, RealServer, and RealSystem Server possibly allowing malicious people to gain system access.

The problem is that "vsrcplin.so.9.0" / "vsrcplin.so.6.0" / "vsrc3260.dll" plugins fails to handle long requests. This may allow malicious people to execute arbitrary code.

Solution
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Provided and/or discovered by
Dave Aitel, Immunity

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Original Advisory
http://www.service.real.com/help/faq/security/rootexploit082203.html
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2003-August/000030.html
http://www.service.real.com/help/faq/security/rootexploit091103.html

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