Vulnerability Note VU#206723

Network Associates CSMAP and smap/smapd vulnerable to buffer overflow thereby allowing arbitrary command execution

Overview

A remotely exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Gauntlet Firewall.

I. Description

The buffer overflow occurs in the smap/smapd and CSMAP daemons. According to PGP Security, these daemons are responsible for handling email transactions for both inbound and outbound e-mail.

This vulnerability occurs in smap/smapd on the following products:

Gauntlet for Unix versions 5.x
PGP e-ppliance 300 series version 1.0
McAfee e-ppliance 100 and 120 series

This vulnerability occurs in CSMAP on the following products:

Gauntlet for Unix version 6.0
PGP e-ppliance 300 series versions 1.5, 2.0
PGP e-ppliance 1000 series versions 1.5, 2.0
McAfee WebShield for Solaris v4.1

II. Impact

An intruder can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the corresponding daemon.

III. Solution

Patchs for this vulnerability are available from the vendor at ftp://ftp.nai.com/pub/security/ and http://www.pgp.com/naicommon/download/upgrade/upgrades-patch.asp.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
PGP	Vulnerable	6-Sep-2001

References

http://www.pgp.com/support/product-advisories/csmap.asp

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by Jim Stickley of Garrison Technologies.

This document was written by Ian A. Finlay.

Other Information

Date Public:	2001-09-04
Date First Published:	2001-09-06
Date Last Updated:	2001-09-06
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):
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Metric:	50.63
Document Revision:	24

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