PRISM Guard Shield Asura engine buffer overflow

prism-guard-asura-engine-bo (36221) The risk level is classified as HighHigh Risk

Description:

PRISM Guard Shield is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the Asura engine when processing network packets. By sending a specially-crafted packet with a data id of 0xF007 to UDP port 3658, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.

Note: This vulnerability also affects Rogue Trooper.

*CVSS:

Base Score: 7.5
  Access Vector: Network
  Access Complexity: Low
  Authentication: None
  Confidentiality Impact: Partial
  Integrity Impact: Partial
  Availability Impact: Partial
 
Temporal Score: 6.1
  Exploitability: Unproven
  Remediation Level: Unavailable
  Report Confidence: Uncorroborated

Consequences:

Gain Access

Remedy:

No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.

References:

  • BugTraq Mailing List, Wed Aug 22 2007 - 18:13:28 CDT: Buffer-overflow in the Asura engine.
  • Rebellion Web site: Rogue Trooper.
  • Rebellion Web site: PRISM Guard Shield.
  • BID-25411: Asura Engine Challenge B Query Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
  • CVE-2007-4508: Stack-based buffer overflow in Rebellion Asura engine, as used for the server in Rogue Trooper 1.0 and earlier and Prism 1.1.1.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a 0xf007 packet for the challenge B query.
  • SA24023: PRISM Guard Shield Asura Engine Packet Handling Buffer Overflow
  • SA26571: Rogue Trooper Asura Engine Packet Handling Buffer Overflow
  • VUPEN/ADV-2007-2955: Prism Guard Shield Asura Engine Packet Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
  • VUPEN/ADV-2007-2956: Rogue Trooper Asura Engine Packet Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Platforms Affected:

  • Rebellion PRISM Guard Shield 1.1.1.0 and prior
  • Rebellion Rogue Trooper 1.0 and prior

Reported:

Aug 22, 2007

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