‘Trend Micro OfficeScan CGI Parsing Buffer Overflows’

Summary

”Protect your desktops, laptops, and file servers with OfficeScan, comprehensive security against today’s complex, blended threats and Web-based attacks.’ Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.’

Credit:

‘The information has been provided by Secunia Research.
The original article can be found at: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-40/


Details

Vulnerable Systems:
 * Trend Micro OfficeScan version 7.3 patch 4 build 1367

A boundary error when parsing CGI requests can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an HTTP POST request to an affected CGI executable with specially crafted form data.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

Solution:
Apply patches available from Trend Micro.

Time Table:
24/09/2008 – Vendor notified.
24/09/2008 – Vendor response.
30/09/2008 – Vendor confirms vulnerability.
22/10/2008 – Public disclosure.

CVE Information:
CVE-2008-3862

Categories: Windows