Advisory Details

August 7th, 2017

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center dbman Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2017-8956
CVSS SCORE	10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS	Hewlett Packard Enterprise
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Intelligent Management Center
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION	Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['27232']. 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 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the dbman service, which listens by default on TCP port 2810. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of SYSTEM.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Hewlett Packard Enterprise has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03745en_us
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2017-01-03 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2017-08-07 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	sztivi

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