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LANDesk QIP service buffer overflow vulnerability

Vulnerability Note VU#538011

Original Release Date: 2008-09-17 | Last Revised: 2008-09-17

Overview

The LANDesk Management Suite Intel QIP service contains a buffer overflow vulnerability.

Description

The LANDesk Intel QIP Server Service is used to configure policy management. The Intel QIP service allows LANDesk Agents to report status and make certain software requests.

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Intel QIP service (Qipsrvr.exe).

Impact

A remote, unauthenticated attacker may be able to execute code with system privileges.

Solution

Upgrade
LANDesk has released updates to address this issue. See LANDesk DOC-3276 for more information.


Restrict access

The QIP service listens on 12175/tcp by default. Restricting access to this port by using access control lists or port filters may prevent this vulnerablility from being exploited.

Vendor Information

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LANDesk Affected

Updated:  September 17, 2008

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

See http://community.landesk.com/support/docs/DOC-3276 for more details.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us email.


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Acknowledgements

Thanks to LANDesk for technical information that was used in this document. This issue was reported to LANDesk by TippingPoint DVLabs.

This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.

Other Information

CVE IDs: CVE-2008-2468
Severity Metric: 3.21
Date Public: 2008-09-12
Date First Published: 2008-09-17
Date Last Updated: 2008-09-17 14:21 UTC
Document Revision: 11

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