ESA-2012-020: EMC AutoStart Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

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ESA-2012-020: EMC AutoStart Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities. 

EMC Identifier: ESA-2012-020 
CVE Identifier: CVE-2012-0409 

Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) 

Affected products:
EMC AutoStart 5.3.x 
EMC AutoStart 5.4.x 

Summary: 

EMC AutoStart contains multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities which can be 
exploited to potentially cause a denial of service, or possibly, execute 
arbitrary code within the context of the affected application.
 
Details:
 
Security flaws were detected in AutoStart where malicious packets could be sent 
to agents to cause buffer overflow. Message could be modified to send values, 
which could then be used in performing arithmetic operations which in turn is 
used to allocate memory. Memory corruption resulting from such allocations can 
be exploited to gain remote code execution, cause crashes or repeated 
restarting of AutoStart agents affecting availability of agents.
 
Resolution:
 
The following EMC AutoStart product contains resolution to these issues:

EMC AutoStart 5.4.3
 
EMC strongly recommends all customers upgrade at the earliest opportunity. 
Note: Customers on 5.3.x will have to first upgrade to 5.4.0 and then upgrade 
to 5.4.3 version.

Link to Remedies:

Registered EMC customers can download software from Powerlink. For EMC 
AutoStart Software, navigate in Powerlink to Home > Support > Software 
Downloads and Licensing > Downloads A-B > AutoStart
 
Because the view is restricted based on customer agreements, you may not have 
permission to view certain downloads. Should you not see a software download 
you believe you should have access to, follow the instructions in EMC 
Knowledgebase solution emc116045. 

Credits:
 
EMC would like to thank gwslabs.com working with TippingPoint's Zero Day 
Initiative (http://www.zerodayinitiative.com) for reporting these issues.
 
For an explanation of Severity Ratings, refer to EMC Knowledgebase solution 
emc218831. EMC recommends all customers take into account both the base score 
and any relevant temporal and environmental scores which may impact the 
potential severity associated with particular security vulnerability. 

Read and use the information in this EMC Security Advisory to assist in 
avoiding any situation that might arise from the problems described herein. If 
you have any questions regarding this product alert, contact EMC Software 
Technical Support at 1-877-534-2867. 

EMC Corporation distributes EMC Security Advisories, in order to bring to the 
attention of users of the affected EMC products, important security 
information. EMC recommends that all users determine the applicability of this 
information to their individual situations and take appropriate action. The 
information set forth herein is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. 
EMC disclaims all warranties, either express or implied, including the 
warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and 
non-infringement. In no event, shall EMC or its suppliers, be liable for any 
damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss 
of business profits or special damages, even if EMC or its suppliers have been 
advised of the possibility of such damages. Some states do not allow the 
exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, 
so the foregoing limitation may not apply. 

EMC Product Security Response Center
Security_Alert@xxxxxxx
http://www.emc.com/contact-us/contact/product-security-response-center.htm

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