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CA Unicenter Software Delivery dtscore.dll Stack Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-09-052: August 7th, 2009

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Affected Vendors

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Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Computer Associates Unicenter Software Delivery. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw resides in the dtscore.dll library. The vulnerability is exposed through multiple processes listening on multiple ports. The vulnerable function is a token searching routine which will copy user supplied data into a fixed length stack buffer. Exploitation of this vulnerability leads to arbitrary code execution under the context of the SYSTEM user.

Vendor Response

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

Disclosure Timeline

    2007-09-14 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2009-08-07 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Orlando Padilla and Peter Silberman