TITLE:
EMC Retrospect Client Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20080

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20080/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
EMC Retrospect Client for Windows 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/8531/
EMC Retrospect Client for Windows 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/8530/
EMC Retrospect Client for Solaris 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/9886/
EMC Retrospect Client for Solaris 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/9887/
EMC Retrospect Client for NetWare 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/9888/
EMC Retrospect Client for Macintosh 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/9884/
EMC Retrospect Client for Linux 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/9882/
Dantz Retrospect Client 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/1706/
EMC Retrospect Client for Linux 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/9883/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in EMC Retrospect Client, which can
be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service)
and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is cause due to a boundary error within the
handling of certain received packets. This can be exploited to cause
a buffer overflow via a specially crafted packet sent to port 497.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following versions:
Retrospect Client for Windows version 6.5, 7.0, and 7.5.
Retrospect Client for Macintosh version 5.1 and 6.1.
Retrospect Client for Linux version 6.5, 7.0, and 7.5.
Retrospect Client for Solaris version 6.5, 7.0, and 7.5.
Retrospect Client for NetWare 1.0.

SOLUTION:
Apply updates.
http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/articleDirect/index.asp?aid=9511&r=0.3177301

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits:
* Nicolas Pouvesle, Tenable Software.
* Stanka Šalamun, Acros Security.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://kb.dantz.com/article.asp?article=9511&p=2

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