Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM), which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in "ovspmd" service when processing specially crafted packets sent to port 8886/TCP, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected server or execute arbitrary code.

Affected Products

HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM) version 7.53 and prior

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1159
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/closedview-adv.txt

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Luigi Auriemma.

ChangeLog

2008-04-09 : Initial release

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