HP OpenView Network Node Manager malformed displayWidth option to jovgraph.exe

Added: 04/18/2011
CVE: CVE-2011-0261
BID: 45762
OSVDB: 70469

Background

HP OpenView Network Node Manager is network availability and performance management software.

Problem

A buffer overflow vulnerability in jovgraph.exe allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by sending an overly long displayWidth option in the arg parameter to the jovgraph.exe CGI program.

Resolution

Apply the appropriate patch.

References

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-003/

Limitations

Exploit works on HP OpenView Network Node Manager 7.53 on Windows Server 2003 with DEP AlwaysOff.

On Windows Server 2003, read and execute privileges on the file %windir%\system32\cmd.exe must be granted to the Internet Guest Account IUSR_<computername> for the exploit to work properly. Note that users in the Users and Power Users groups do not have such privileges, but users in the Administrators and TelnetClients groups do.

Platforms

Windows

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