Hewlett-Packard Data Protector Express PrvRecvRqu Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

September 13th, 2010
ZDI-10-175 ZDI-CAN-582

CVE ID

CVE-2010-3008

CVSS Score

7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Vendors

Hewlett-Packard

Affected Products

OpenView Data Protector

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service condition on vulnerable installations of Hewlett-Packard Data Protector. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the function PrvRecvRqu() defined in the module dpwinsup. While handling requests sent to TCP port 3817 the process can be forced to dereference a NULL pointer resulting in an unhandled exception that crashes the service.

Additional Details

Hewlett-Packard has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02067559

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2009-10-21 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2010-09-13 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

AbdulAziz Hariri of Insight Technologies

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