Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-5252 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Netsupport products
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Buffer overflow in NetSupport Manager (NSM) Client 10.00 and 10.20, and NetSupport School Student (NSS) 9.00, allows remote NSM servers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted data in the configuration exchange phase of an initial connection setup. NOTE: a vendor statement, which is too vague to be sure that it is for this particular issue, says that only a denial of service is possible.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 3 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
NASL family | Windows |
NASL id | NSM_CLIENT_OVERFLOW.NASL |
description | NetSupport Manager (NSM), a multi-platform remote control application, is installed on the remote host. According to its version, the NetSupport Manager client component on the remote host fails to properly validate input during the initial client connection sequence. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to leverage this issue to crash the affected service or possibly execute arbitrary code. [Note that the vendor has only acknowledged the denial of service vulnerability.] |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 26922 |
published | 2007-10-05 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/26922 |
title | NetSupport NSM / NSS Initial Connection Setup Configuration Exchange Remote Overflow |
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References
- http://www.netsupportsoftware.com/support/td.asp?td=545&Site=nsltd&Lang=
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25932
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018774
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27082
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3198
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36963
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/481537/100/0/threaded