eIQnetworks Enterprise Security Analyzer (ESA) multiple commands buffer overflow

eiqnetworks-esa-multiple-commands-bo (33646) The risk level is classified as HighHigh Risk

Description:

eIQnetworks Enterprise Security Analyzer (ESA) is vulnerable to multiple heap-based and stack-based buffer overflows in the MainEngine.exe service. By sending an overly long argument to the DELETESEARCHFOLDER, DELTASK, HMGR_CHECKHOSTSCSV, TASKUPDATEDUSER, VERIFYUSERKEY and VERIFYPWD commands on TCP port 10616, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

Platforms Affected:

  • eIQnetworks, Enterprise Security Analyzer (ESA) 2.5.0 and prior

Remedy:

No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.

Consequences:

Gain Access

References:

  • BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Apr 12 2007 - 04:13:12 CDT , INFIGO-2007-04-05: Enterprise Security Analyzer server remote buffer overflows at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2007-04/0185.html.
  • CVE-2007-2059: Multiple buffer overflows in the ESA protocol implementation in eIQnetworks Enterprise Security Analyzer (ESA) 2.5 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long parameter to the (1) DELETESEARCHFOLDER, (2) DELTASK, (3) HMGR_CHECKHOSTSCSV, (4) TASKUPDATEDUSER, (5) VERIFYUSERKEY, or (6) VERIFYPWD command.
  • SA24881: eIQNetworks Enterprise Security Analyzer Command Processing Vulnerabilities
  • VUPEN/ADV-2007-1380: eIQnetworks Enterprise Security Analyzer Commands Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

Reported:

Apr 12, 2007

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