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HP Data Protector Express Opcode 0x330 Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-12-096: June 21st, 2012

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Affected Vendors

Affected Products

    Data Protector Express

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Vulnerability Details


This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of HP Data Protector Express. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. User interaction is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the dpwinsdr.exe process which listens on TCP port 3817 by default. The process has insufficient bounds checking on user-supplied data copied to a fixed-length buffer on the stack. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed opcode 0x330 message packets to the target, which could ultimately lead to arbitrary code execution under the context of the SYSTEM user.

Vendor Response

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

Disclosure Timeline

    2011-11-29 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2012-06-21 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
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