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Hewlett-Packard OpenView Data Protector Backup Client Service Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-09-099: December 17th, 2009

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Affected Vendors

Affected Products

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Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Hewlett-Packard Storage Data Protector. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the backup client service daemon (OmniInet.exe), which binds to TCP port 5555. During the processing of long arguments to the 'MSG_PROTOCOL' command, a stack based buffer overflow occurs and can result in code execution under the context of the daemon.

Vendor Response

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

Disclosure Timeline

    2006-10-10 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2009-12-17 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Tenable Network Security
    Aaron Portnoy, TippingPoint DVLabs