Hewlett-Packard HP-UX swagentd Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

2007-12-1700:00:00

Tenable Network Security

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10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

0.557 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.6%

JSON

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Hewlett-Packard HP-UX operating system. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the function sw_rpc_agent_init (opcode 0x04) defined in swagentd. Specific malformed arguments can cause function pointers to be overwritten and thereby result in arbitrary code execution.