45610 : IBM Lotus Sametime Community Services Multiplexer (StMux.exe) Remote Overflow
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Timeline

Vendor Informed Date Disclosure Date
2007-12-11 2008-05-21

Keywords

TippingPoint IPS Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 5607, 5698, TCP port 1533

Description

A remote overflow exists in Lotus Domino Sametime Server. The Multiplexer StMux.exe in IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5.1 CF1 and earlier, and 8.x before 8.0.1, fails to restrict string lengths in a POST request resulting in a stack based buffer overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can execute arbitrary code resulting in a loss of confidentiality, integrity, and/or availability.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Public, Exploit Private, Exploit Commercial
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified

Technical

The stack can be overwritten when sending a malicious HTTP POST request to the /CommunityCBR/ URI.

Solution

Upgrade to version 8.0.1 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Lotus
Watch-list
Domino
Watch-list
7.5.1
8.0.0

References

Tools & Filters

Snort

13902

Manual Testing Notes

Credit

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-05-30 | Disagree?

Access_vector_2 Access_complexity_2 Authentication_2 Confidentiality_impact_1 Integrity_impact_1 Availability_impact_1

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