[SA20452] TIBCO Rendezvous HTTP Administrative Interface Buffer Overflow

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TITLE:
TIBCO Rendezvous HTTP Administrative Interface Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20452

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20452/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
TIBCO Rendezvous 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/10338/
TIBCO Hawk 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/10339/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in TIBCO Rendezvous, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause DoS (Denial of Service) and
potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the TIBCO
Rendezvous daemon components when handling certain requests received
via the HTTP administrative interface. This can be exploited to cause
a buffer overflow and may allow arbitrary code execution.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following components in
TIBCO Rendezvous versions prior to 7.5.1, TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA)
versions prior to 5.4, and in TIBCO Hawk versions prior to 4.6.1.

• TIBCO Rendezvous Routing Daemon (rvrd)
• TIBCO Rendezvous Secure Routing Daemon (rvsrd)
• TIBCO Rendezvous Secure Daemon (rvsd)
• TIBCO Rendezvous Cache (rvcache)
• TIBCO Rendezvous Agent (rva)

SOLUTION:
Update TIBCO Rendezvous to version 7.5.1 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Andrйs Tarascу Acuсa of the SIA Group.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.tibco.com/resources/mk/rendezvous_security_advisory.txt

OTHER REFERENCES:
US-CERT VU#999884:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/999884

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