IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment Multiple Stack Overflow Vulnerabilities
TPTI-07-05: May 2nd, 2007
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Vulnerability Details
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on systems with vulnerable installations of IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
The specific flaws exist in the handling of HTTP requests to the rembo.exe service listening on TCP port 8080. Several components of an HTTP request can be modified to trigger buffer overflows. For example, by supplying an overly long filename an attacker is able to overflow a 150 byte stack buffer and subsequently execute arbitrary code. The overflow occurs during a string copy loop, shown here:
00431136 lea edi, [ebp+var_3C4] ; 150 byte stack buffer
...
00431148 stringcopy:
00431148 mov al, [edx] ; edx -> our data
0043114A add edx, 1
0043114D mov [edi], al ; edi -> stack buffer
0043114F add edi, 1
00431152 test al, al
00431154 jnz short stringcopy
The Host and Authorization fields are also vulnerable to similar exploitable overflows.
Vendor Response
IBM has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
Disclosure Timeline
2006-12-18 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2007-05-02 - Coordinated public release of advisory
Credit
This vulnerability was discovered by:
Aaron Portnoy, TippingPoint DVLabs