55744 : eEye Retina Network Security Scanner RWS File Handling Overflow
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Timeline

Discovery Date Vendor Informed Date Vendor Ack Date Disclosure Date Vendor Solution Date
2009-05-16 2009-05-16 2009-05-18 2009-07-10 2009-07-10
Time to Patch Time to Vendor Response
55 days 2 days

Keywords

ZSL-2009-4917

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in eEye Retina WiFi Scanner, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when processing wireless scan fles (i.e. ".RWS") containing overly long data, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious file.

Classification

Location: Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure
OSVDB: Security Software

Technical

(1268.dd8): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance)
First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling.
This exception may be expected and handled.
eax=41414141 ebx=00000003 ecx=000006d8 edx=00000000 esi=0000006c edi=10264da0
eip=1001dcce esp=0012e72c ebp=0012e754 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na pe nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00010206
*** Defaulted to export symbols for [path]\WiFiCore.dll -
WiFiCore!LibWifi_ReportHTML+0x1b48e:
1001dcce f644300401 test byte ptr [eax+esi+4],1 ds:0023:414141b1=??
0:000> g
(1268.dd8): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance)
First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling.
This exception may be expected and handled.
eax=00000010 ebx=41414141 ecx=00000000 edx=41414141 esi=00001000 edi=41414150
eip=7c809eda esp=00121484 ebp=001214b0 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00010246
*** Defaulted to export symbols for [path]\kernel32.dll -
kernel32!IsBadReadPtr+0x39:
7c809eda 8a02 mov al,byte ptr [edx] ds:0023:41414141=??

Solution

Upgrade to version 5.10.15 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Tools & Filters

39809

Credit

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2009-11-05 | Disagree?

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