Secunia Research: HP OpenView Products Shared Trace Service Denial of Service

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                 Secunia Research 22/10/2008

• HP OpenView Products Shared Trace Service Denial of Service -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software…1
Severity…2
Description of Vulnerability…3
Solution…4
Time Table…5
Credits…6
References…7
About Secunia…8
Verification…9

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1) Affected Software

• HP OpenView Report 3.70
• HP Performance Agent 4.70

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Less critical
Impact: Denial of Service
Where: Local network

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3) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in various HP
products, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS
(Denial of Service).

The HP OpenView Trace Service exposes an RPC service on TCP port 5051
or 5053 that does not require authentication. By sending a particular
sequence of RPC requests, an object is incorrectly referenced, which
may cause a memory reference beyond an allocated buffer.

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4) Solution

Restrict access to the service.

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5) Time Table

15/10/2007 - Vendor contacted.
16/10/2007 - Vendor response.
10/06/2008 - Status update requested.
12/08/2008 - Status update requested.
12/08/2008 - Vendor responds with expected release date before end
of September.
22/10/2008 - Public disclosure.

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6) Credits

Discovered by Dyon Balding, Secunia Research.

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7) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2007-4349 for the vulnerability.

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9) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-83/

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