EMC Legato NetWorker nsrd.exe denial of service
| legato-nsrd-dos (24173) |  Low Risk |
Description:
EMC Legato NetWorker is vulnerable to a denial of service attack, caused by a NULL pointer dereference. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted RPC request to RPC program number 390109, which would cause the nsrd.exe process.
Note: This vulnerability also affects Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software (EBS).
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Refer to EMC Legato - Technical Product Alert - January 16, 2006 for upgrade and hot-fix information. See References.
For Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software (EBS):
Refer to Sun Alert ID: 102148 for patch information. See References.
References:
- EMC Legato - Technical Product Alert - January 16, 2006: EMC NetWorker .
- iDEFENSE Security Advisory 01.17.06: EMC Legato Networker nsrd.exe DoS Vulnerability.
- Legato Web site: Legato Networker - The Backup and Recovery Performance Leader.
- Sun Alert ID: 102148: SecurityVulnerabilities in Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software (EBS).
- BID-16275: EMC Legato Networker Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2005-3659: nsrd.exe in EMC Legato NetWorker 7.1.x before 7.1.4 and 7.2.x before 7.2.1.Build.314, and other products such as Sun Solstice Backup (SBU) 6.0 and 6.1 and StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software (EBS) 7.1 through 7.2L, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (nsrd service crash) via a malformed RPC request to RPC program number 390109, which triggers a null dereference.
- SA18495: EMC NetWorker Denial of Service and Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
- SA18615: Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup / Solstice Backup Vulnerabilities
- SECTRACK ID: 1015500: EMC Legato NetWorker `nsrd.exe` and `nsrexecd.exe` Heap Overflows Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
- SECTRACK ID: 1015545: Sun StorEdge `nsrd.exe` and `nsrexecd.exe` Heap Overflows Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-0233: EMC NetWorker Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Issues
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-0343: Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software (EBS) Multiple Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- EMC Legato NetWorker 7.1.4
- EMC Legato NetWorker 7.2.1
- EMC Legato NetWorker 7.3
- Sun Solstice Backup 6.0
- Sun Solstice Backup 6.1
- Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software 7.0
- Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software 7.1
- Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup Software 7.2
Reported:
Jan 17, 2006
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