Check Point Advisories

CA Message Queuing Buffer Overflow (CVE-2005-2668)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2005-314
Date Published: 10 Feb 2010
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Sunday 14 February, 2016
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2005-2668
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description Computer Associates (CA) provides numerous product suites that provide network-monitoring functionality, manage network asset discovery, software deployment, and patch management. These capabilities are contained in the CA Unicenter product suites. The numerous components that are provided, contain unique functionalities in addition to some common traits and services. One of the services that is common to all Unicenter products is the Message Queuing (MQ) service. A vulnerability exists in multiple Computer Associates products which embed the Message Queuing component. The flaw exists in the affected component's failure to impose proper boundary checks on user supplied data. This vulnerability may by exploited to inject and execute arbitrary code on the affected host. In a successful attack, where an attacker can inject code into the vulnerable target, the behavior of the target is dependent on the intention of the malicious code. In an attack case where code injection is not successful, the vulnerable application may terminate abnormally. Note that any code executed by the attacker runs with the privileges of the affected product, normally System on Windows systems.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the CA Message Queuing Buffer Overflow protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information:  CA Message queuing buffer overflow

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