[SAFER-981204.DOS.1.3] Buffer Overflow in Platinum PCM 7.0

[security () SIAMRELAY COM (Security Research Team)]

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      S.A.F.E.R. Security Bulletin 981204.DOS.1.3
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TITLE: Buffer Overflow in Platinum PCM 7.0
DATE: December 04, 1998
NATURE: Denial-of-Service, Remote Code Execution
PLATFORMS: Windows NT 4.0

DETAILS:

Policy Compliance Manager is a product that performs checks on the system,
in order to ensure that security policies are enforced. It acts very much
as a security scanner, but with a limited number of security checks.

PCM Agent can be installed on different machines. Then, users can establish
connection and initiate checks using the PCM Client.

PROBLEM:

If certain amount of data is sent to port where Smaxagent.exe (Agent) is
listening [1827], Smaxagent will crash. Restart of the service is needed.

Remote users can also execute arbitrary code.

FIXES:

Platinum has been informed about this issue (and confirmed the problem) on
September 9th 1998.

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