Check Point Advisories

CA ARCserve Backup DB Engine Denial of Service - Ver2 (CVE-2008-4399)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2014-2456
Date Published:	28 Dec 2014
Severity:	Medium
Last Updated:	Sunday 28 December, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2008-4399
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R77, R76, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	CA ARCserve Backup products offer data protection for distributed servers, clients,databases and applications. They provide centralized control over a series of distributed operationsincluding Backup and Restore, Data Migration, and Threat Management. There exists a denial of service vulnerability in CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup DB Engine. The vulnerability is due to insufficient memory initialization. A remote unauthenticated attacker may exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted message to the target server. Successful attack could create a denial of service condition to the DBEng.exe service. Upon processing the malicious RPC message, the DBEng.exe process terminates, followed by LDBserver.exe and cdbmergelog.exe. As DBEng is hosted as a Windows service it can be configured on some operating systems, like Windows Server 2003, to automatically restart upon abnormal termination.

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,
Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R77 / R76 / R75 / R71 / R70

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the CA ARCserve Backup DB Engine Denial of Service - Ver2 protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all modules.

SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:

Attack Name: HTTP Protocol Inspection.
Attack Information: CA ARCserve Backup DB Engine Denial of Service - Ver2