Vulnerability Note VU#375353

CA BrightStor ARCserver Tape Engine memory corruption vulnerability

Overview

The Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape Engine contains a memory corruption vulnerability. If successfully exploited, this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or create a denial-of-service condition.

I. Description

BrightStor ARCserve Backup is a backup and data retention tool that integrates with other BrightStor Data Availability and BrightStor Storage Management solutions. The Tape Engine features allow BrightStor ARCserve Backup products to use tape drives for storage.

The BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape Engine contains a memory corruption vulnerability.

II. Impact

A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code or create a denial-of-service condition.

III. Solution

Upgrade

Computer Associates has released upgrades to address this issue.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Notified	Date Updated
Computer Associates	Vulnerable	17-Mar-2007

References

http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/newsinfo/collateral.aspx?cid=101317
http://www3.ca.com/solutions/ProductFamily.aspx?ID=115
http://secunia.com/advisories/24512/
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2007/Mar/1017783.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22994

Credit

Thanks to Computer Associates for information that was used in this report. Computer Associates credits McAfee for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

Date Public:	2007-03-16
Date First Published:	2007-03-17
Date Last Updated:	2007-03-20
CERT Advisory:
CVE-ID(s):	CVE-2007-1447
NVD-ID(s):	CVE-2007-1447
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	5.67
Document Revision:	16

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