Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in VERITAS NetBackup servers and clients, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a format string error in the Java authentication service "bpjava-msvc" that does not properly handle a specially crafted "COMMAND_LOGON_TO_MSERVER" command (port 13722), which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root/SYSTEM privileges.



Affected Products

VERITAS NetBackup Data and Business Center 4.5FP (all builds and platforms)
VERITAS NetBackup Data and Business Center 4.5MP (all builds and platforms)
VERITAS NetBackup Enterprise/Server/Client 5.0 (all builds and platforms)
VERITAS NetBackup Enterprise/Server/Client 5.1 (all builds and platforms)
VERITAS NetBackup Enterprise/Server/Client 6.0 (all builds and platforms)

Solution

This issue is resolved with the following special packs :
NetBackup DataCenter and NetBackup BusinesServer 4.5 Feature Pack track NB_45_9S1443_F
NetBackup DataCenter and NetBackup BusinesServer 4.5 Maintenance Pack track NB_45_9S1729_M
NetBackup Enterprise Server and NetBackup Server 5.0 NB_50_5S1320_M
NetBackup Enterprise Server and NetBackup Server 5.1 NB_51_3AS0949_M
NetBackup Entperprise Server and NetBackup Server 6.0 NB_60_3S0007_M

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2072
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/279085.htm

Credits

Vulnerability reported by TippingPoint

ChangeLog

2005-10-12 : Initial release
2005-10-20 : Exploit available

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