[NEWS] HP Mercury LoadRunner Agent Stack Overflow

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HP Mercury LoadRunner Agent Stack Overflow
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SUMMARY

<http://www.mercury.com/us/products/performance-center/loadrunner/>
LoadRunner is a performance and load testing product by Hewlett-Packard
(since it acquired Mercury Interactive in November 2006) for examining
system behavior and performance, while generating actual load.

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on
vulnerable installations of Hewlett-Packard Mercury LoadRunner Agent,
Mercury Performance Center Agent and Mercury Monitor over Firewall.

DETAILS

Vulnerable Systems:
* Mercury LoadRunner Agent 8.1
* Mercury LoadRunner Agent 8.0
* Mercury Performance Center Agent 8.1
* Mercury Performance Center Agent 8.0
* Mercury Monitor over Firewall 8.1

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on
vulnerable installations of Hewlett-Packard Mercury LoadRunner Agent,
Mercury Performance Center Agent and Mercury Monitor over Firewall.
Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the process magentproc.exe that binds to
TCP port 54345. When parsing packets containing an overly long
'server_ip_name' field, an exploitable stack overflow may be triggered due
to an an inline strcpy() within the library mchan.dll.

Vendor Status:
Hewlett-Packard has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More
details can be found at:

<http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00854250> HP Security Bulletin Document ID #c00854250

Disclosure Timeline:
* 2006.10.27 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
* 2006.11.10 - Digital Vaccine released to TippingPoint customers
* 2007.02.08 - Coordinated public release of advisory


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by ZDI.
The original article can be found at:
<http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-007.html>
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-07-007.html



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