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EMC Control Center SST_CTGTRANS Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-08-075: November 20th, 2008

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Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on systems with vulnerable installations of EMC Control Center. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists in the Master Agent service (msragent.exe) which listens by default on TCP port 10444. While processing SST_CTGTRANS requests the process copies packet data into a fixed length stack buffer. Exploitation allows for arbitrary code execution under the context of the SYSTEM user.

Vendor Response

EMC states:

For ControlCenter 5.2 SP5 Software navigate in Powerink to the following location:
Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads C > ControlCenter v 5.x > 5.2 SP5 Patch 4433
For ControlCenter 6.0 Software navigate in Powerlink to the following location:
Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads C > ControlCenter v 6.x > 6.0 Patch 4434


Disclosure Timeline

    2008-09-23 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2008-11-20 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Anonymous