HP Mercury products vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview

Some HP Mercury products are vulnerable to a buffer overflow and may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Description

The magentproc.exe service provided with some HP Mercury products fails to properly parse values in the server_ip_name field. If an overly long value is sent in this parameter, a stack-based buffer overflow may be triggered within the mchan.dll library. An attacker may be able to exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted packet to the agent (port 54345/tcp). HP reports that the following products are affected by this issue:

* Mercury LoadRunner Agent 8.1 SP1, FP1, FP2, FP3, and FP4
* Mercury LoadRunner Agent 8.1 GA
* Mercury LoadRunner Agent 8.0 GA
* Mercury Performance Center Agent 8.1 FP1, FP2, FP3, and FP4
* Mercury Performance Center Agent 8.1 GA
* Mercury Performance Center Agent 8.0 GA
* Mercury Monitor over Firewall 8.1   

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Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code.

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Solution

Apply an Update
HP has issued an update to address this issue. please see HP Security Document ID #c00854250 for further information.

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Vendor Information

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Updated: February 26, 2007

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

Please see HP Security Document ID #c00854250 for further information.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23303012 Feedback>).

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References

• http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c00854250&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
• <http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/r-123.shtml&gt;
• <http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-007.html&gt;
• <http://secunia.com/advisories/24112/&gt;
• <http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2007/Feb/1017613.html&gt;

Acknowledgements

This vulnerability was reported in HP Security Document ID #c00854250. This issue was discovered by Eric Detoisien and reported via Zero Day Initiative.

This document was written by Katie Steiner.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2007-0446
Severity Metric:	10.31 Date Public: