ZDI-07-003: CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup Message Engine Buffer Overflow
            Vulnerability
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-003.html
January 11, 2007

-- CVE ID:
CVE-2007-0169

-- Affected Vendor:
Computer Associates

-- Affected Products:
BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.5
BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.1
BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11
BrightStor Enterprise Backup r10.5
BrightStor ARCserve Backup v9.01

-- TippingPoint(TM) IPS Customer Protection:
TippingPoint IPS customers have been protected against this
vulnerability since November 22, 2006 by Digital Vaccine protection
filter IDs 4871 & 4879. For further product information on the 
TippingPoint IPS:

    http://www.tippingpoint.com 

-- Vulnerability Details:
This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on
vulnerable installations of Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve
Backup. User interaction is not required to exploit this
vulnerability.

The specific flaws exists in the Message Engine RPC service which
listens by default on TCP ports 6503 and 6504 with the following
UUIDs:

    dc246bf0-7a7a-11ce-9f88-00805fe43838
    506b1890-14c8-11d1-bbc3-00805fa6962e

The service exposes buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the handlers for
RPC opnums 0x2F and 0x75 that allow for arbitrary code execution when
handling user-supplied data from the RPC request.

-- Vendor Response:
Computer Associates has issued an update to correct this vulnerability.
More details can be found at:

 
http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/storage/infodocs/babimpsec-notice.asp

-- Disclosure Timeline:
2006.11.08 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2006.11.22 - Digital Vaccine released to TippingPoint customers
2007.01.11 - Coordinated public release of advisory

-- Credit:
This vulnerability was discovered by Tenable Network Security.

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