HP OpenView NNM ov.dll _OVBuildPath Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

January 5th, 2012
ZDI-12-002 ZDI-CAN-1210

CVE ID

CVE-2011-3167

CVSS Score

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

Affected Vendors

Hewlett-Packard

Affected Products

OpenView Network Node Manager

Vulnerability Details


This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of OpenView Network Node Manager. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within ov.dll. When processing a user supplied file name for the textFile option, there exists an insufficient boundary check before supplying the value to a format string within _OVBuildPath, causing a stack overflow. This can lead to memory corruption which can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code under the context of the target service.

Additional Details

Hewlett-Packard has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
https://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay/?docId=emr_na-c03054052

Disclosure Timeline

  • 2011-05-12 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2012-01-05 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

Aniway (Aniway.Anyway@gmail.com)

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