Vulnerability Note VU#647273

CA BrightStor ARCserver Tape Engine denial of service vulnerability

Overview

The Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape Engine contains a vulnerability. If successfully exploited, this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to shut down the tape engine interface.

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 vulnerability that is caused by an RPC function. This RPC function can be used to disable the tape engine interface.

II. Impact

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

III. Solution

Upgrade

Computer Associates has released an 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-2007-1448
NVD-ID(s):	CVE-2007-1448
US-CERT Technical Alerts:
Metric:	1.20
Document Revision:	15

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