National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4828

Overview

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in dsmagent.exe in the Remote Agent Service in the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) client 5.1.0.0 through 5.1.8.2, 5.2.0.0 through 5.2.5.3, 5.3.0.0 through 5.3.6.4, and 5.4.0.0 through 5.4.1.96, and the TSM Express client 5.3.3.0 through 5.3.6.4, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a request packet that is not properly parsed by an unspecified "generic string handling function" or (2) a crafted NodeName in a dicuGetIdentifyRequest request packet, related to the (a) Web GUI and (b) Java GUI.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: AIXAPAR

Name: IC59513

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC59513

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21384389

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21384389

External Source: XF

Name: ibm-tsm-dsmagent-bo(50327)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/50327

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1235

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1235

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090504 Secunia Research: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Remote Agent Service Buffer Overflows

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/503182/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-55/

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-55/

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32604

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32604

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 54232

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/54232

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 54231

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/54231