TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative
 

Symantec Veritas NetBackup Long Request Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-06-049: December 13th, 2006

CVE ID

Affected Vendors

Affected Products

TippingPoint™ IPS Customer Protection

TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 4505. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Symantec Veritas NetBackup. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within bpcd.exe during the parsing of overly long requests to a NetBackup Master/Media Server. Communications to this process are prefixed with a length, which, if malformed can result in a stack based buffer overflow. Exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to complete system compromise.

Vendor Response

Symantec has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:

Disclosure Timeline

    2006-08-14 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2006-12-13 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Sebastian Apelt