McAfee Common Management Agent (CMA) ping buffer overflow
| security-management-ping-bo (31163) |  High Risk |
Description:
McAfee Common Management Agent (CMA), which is used in multiple McAfee products, is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking of pings. By sending a specially-crafted packet to an affected system, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the CMA node to crash.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 8 |
| Access Vector: | Remote |
| Access Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Complete |
| Integrity Impact: | Complete |
| Availability Impact: | Complete |
| Temporal Score: | 5.9 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of McAfee Common Management Agent (3.6.0 Patch 1 (CMA3.6.0.546) or later), as listed in McAfee Support Document ID: 613365. See References.
References:
- IBM Internet Security Systems Protection Advisory July 10, 2007: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Agent Remote Code Execution.
- McAfee Support Document ID: 613365: McAfee Security Bulletin - Stack based buffer overflow of Common Management Agent (CMA).
- BID-24863: McAfee Common Management Agent (CMA) Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2006-5272: Stack-based buffer overflow in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.5 through 3.6.1, ProtectionPilot 1.1.1 and 1.5, and Common Management Agent (CMA) 3.6.0.453 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted ping packet.
- OSVDB ID: 36099: McAfee Multiple Products ePolicy Orchestrator Crafted Ping Packet Remote Overflow
- SA26029: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator / ProtectionPilot Common Management Agent Vulnerabilities
- SECTRACK ID: 1018363: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Common Management Agent Buffer Overflows Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-2498: McAfee e-Policy Orchestrator Agent Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- McAfee Common Management Agent 3.6.0.453
- McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.5.0
- McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6.0
- McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.6.1
- McAfee ProtectionPilot 1.1.1
- McAfee ProtectionPilot 1.5
Reported:
Jul 10, 2007
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