McAfee E-Business Server Remote Preauth Code Execution / DoS

Advisory Content :

INFIGO IS Security Advisory #ADV-2008-01-06
http://www.infigo.hr/en/

Title: McAfee E-Business Server Remote Preauth Code Execution / DoS
Advisory ID: INFIGO-2008-01-06
Date: 2008-01-09
Advisory URL:
http://www.infigo.hr/en/in_focus/advisories/INFIGO-2008-01-06
Impact: Remote code execution
Risk Level: High
Vulnerability Type: Remote

==[ Overview

McAfee E-Business Server guards sensitive corporate data with
industry-standard
PGP 128-bit encryption and authentication. McAfee E-Business Server
supports
a
variety of platforms and security certificates.

==[ Vulnerability

During an audit of McAfee E-Business Server, we have discovered a
vulnerability
in the administration interface (TCP port 1718).
It is possible to crash McAfee E-Business Server during the authentication
process.
When a malformed (oversized) initial authentication packet is sent to
E-Business Server,
the server will crash, and will have to be manually restarted.

A malformed authentication packet is shown below:
"x01x3fx2fx05x25x2a" + "A" * 69953

McAfee further researched the vulnerability and confirmed that it allows
an
attacker
to also remotely execute code.

==[ Affected Version

The vulnerability has been identified in the latest available McAfee
E-Business Server 8.5.2, and it was successfully tested on Windows and
Linux
platforms.
Previous versions are believed to be vulnerable as well.

==[ Fix

The vendor has addressed this vulnerability with E-Business server patch
update
on January 8th, 2008.

Vendor advisory and update link:
https://knowledge.mcafee.com/SupportSite/dynamickc.do?externalId=614472&
sliceId=SAL_Public&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=614472

==[ PoC Exploit

http://www.infigo.hr/files/mcafee2.pl

==[ Vendor status

11.28.2007 - Initial contact
11.29.2007 - Initial vendor response
11.30.2007 - Vendor response
12.03.2007 - Vendor status update
12.10.2007 - Vendor status update
12.17.2007 - Vendor status update
01.07.2008 - Vendor status update
01.09.2008 - Coordinated public disclosure

==[ Credits

Vulnerability discovered by Leon Juranic <leon.juranic (at) infigo (dot) hr
[email concealed]>.

==[ INFIGO IS Security Contact

INFIGO IS,

WWW : http://www.infigo.hr/en/
E-mail : infocus (at) infigo (dot) hr [email concealed]

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