Advisory Details

January 25th, 2018

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center dbman Stack-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2017-8981
CVSS SCORE	10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS	Hewlett Packard Enterprise
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Intelligent Management Center
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION	Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['27232']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within dbman.exe. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of SYSTEM.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Hewlett Packard Enterprise has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03813en_us
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2017-09-20 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2018-01-25 - Coordinated public release of advisory 2018-01-25 - Advisory Updated
CREDIT	sztivi

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