Advisory Details

October 18th, 2011

Cisco Unified Service Monitor brstart add_dm Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2011-2738
CVSS SCORE	9.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS	EMC Cisco
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	ApplicationXtender Workflow Unified Service Monitor
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION	Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['11467']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Cisco Unified Service Monitor due to bundled EMC SMARTS application server. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The flaw exists within the brstart.exe service which listens by default on TCP port 9002. When handling an add_dm request the process uses a user provided value to allocate a buffer then blindly copies user supplied data into a fixed-length buffer on the heap. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the casuser user.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	EMC has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519646/30/0/threaded Cisco has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20110914-lms.shtml
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2011-02-17 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2011-10-18 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	AbdulAziz Hariri

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