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HP OpenView NNM ovalarm.exe CGI Accept-Language Stack Overflow Vulnerability

TPTI-09-12: December 9th, 2009

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Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Hewlett-Packard OpenView Network Node Manager. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the ovalarm.exe CGI application. If the OVABverbose POST variable is set, this process takes the value of the Accept-Language HTTP header and copies it without any length checks into a 0x100 byte stack buffer. By providing a large enough string this buffer can be overrun leading to arbitrary code execution.

Vendor Response

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

Disclosure Timeline

    2009-07-21 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2009-12-09 - Coordinated public release of advisory

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