TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative
 

Safenet SoftRemote IKE Service Remote Stack Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-09-024: June 1st, 2009

CVE ID

Affected Vendors

Affected Products

TippingPoint™ IPS Customer Protection

TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 6801. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS:

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of the Safenet Softremote IKE VPN service. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists in the ireIke.exe service listening on UDP port 62514. The process does not adequately handle long requests resulting in a stack overflow. Exploitation can result in complete system compromise under the SYSTEM credentials.

Vendor Response

Safenet states:

The issue has been fixed in our release version 10.8.6, customers are advised to upgrade to this version.


Disclosure Timeline

    2008-10-28 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2009-06-01 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Ruben Santamarta