TIBCO Rendezvous daemon HTTP administrative interface buffer overflow

tibco-rendezvous-admin-bo (26939) The risk level is classified as HighHigh Risk

Description:

Multiple daemon components used by TIBCO Rendezvous, TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA) and TIBCO Hawk are vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the HTTP administrative interface. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP request to the administrative interface, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges or cause the affected daemon to crash.

The following daemon components are affected by this vulnerability: TIBCO Rendezvous Routing Daemon (rvrd) TIBCO Rendezvous Secure Routing Daemon (rvsrd) TIBCO Rendezvous Secure Daemon (rvsd) TIBCO Rendezvous Cache (rvcache) TIBCO Rendezvous Agent (rva)


Consequences:

Gain Access

Remedy:

Refer to TIBCO Software Inc. Security Advisory June 5, 2006 for upgrade or suggested workaround information. See References.

References:

Platforms Affected:

  • FreeBSD FreeBSD
  • IBM OS 390
  • IBM OS 400
  • TIBCO Hawk prior to 4.6.1
  • TIBCO Rendezvous prior to 7.5.1
  • TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA) prior to 5.4

Reported:

Jun 05, 2006

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