Vulnerability Note VU#538011

LANDesk QIP service buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview

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

I. 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).

II. Impact

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

III. 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.

Systems Affected

Vendor	Status	Date Updated
LANDesk	Vulnerable	17-Sep-2008

References

http://community.landesk.com/support/docs/DOC-3276
http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/advisory/TPTI-08-06

Credit

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

Date Public	09/12/2008
Date First Published	09/17/2008 08:19:14 AM
Date Last Updated	09/17/2008
CERT Advisory
CVE-ID(s)	CVE-2008-2468
NVD-ID(s)	CVE-2008-2468
US-CERT Technical Alerts
Metric	3.21
Document Revision	11