Overview
InduSoft NTWebServer web service contains a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability.
Description
According to InduSoft's website: "InduSoft Web Studio™ is a powerful collection of automation tools that provide all the automation building blocks to develop HMIs, SCADA systems and embedded instrumentation solutions. Utilize InduSoft integrated Web technologies to take advantage of Internet/intranet connectivity." InduSoft NTWebServer runs a test web service on port 80/tcp. InduSoft NTWebServer test web service is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when more than 2048 bytes are written to the fixed-size stack buffer causing the test web service to write past the bounds of the buffer and corrupt the memory. |
Impact
An attacker can cause the service to crash and may be able to execute arbitrary code. |
Solution
Use IIS InduSoft recommends using NTWebServer test web service only for development purposes and Microsoft IIS for production. |
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Vendor Information
InduSoft's website lists other devices that may be using NTWebServer test web service that may also be vulnerable. |
CVSS Metrics
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References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Jeremy Brown for reporting this vulnerability to ICS-CERT.
This document was written by Michael Orlando.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | None |
| Severity Metric: | 71.28 |
| Date Public: | 2011-01-04 |
| Date First Published: | 2011-01-12 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2011-01-12 23:13 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 27 |