Executive Summary

Summary
Title HP LoadRunner buffer overflow vulnerability
Informations
Name VU#987308 First vendor Publication 2011-05-31
Vendor VU-CERT Last vendor Modification 2011-05-31
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision M

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Vulnerability Note VU#987308

HP LoadRunner buffer overflow vulnerability

Overview

HP LoadRunner contains a buffer overflow vulnerability when parsing Virtual User script files.

I. Description

According to HP's website: HP LoadRunner software is the industry standard for performance validation. It allows you to prevent application performance problems by detecting bottlenecks before a new system or upgrade is deployed. HP LoadRunner contains a buffer overflow vulnerability when parsing Virtual User script (.usr) files containing long strings for directives, causing the HP LoadRunner application to crash.

II. Impact

An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by tricking a user into opening a crafted .usr file, causing HP LoadRunner to crash leading to possible execution of arbitrary code.

III. Solution

HP has stated they are planning to release a patch to address this vulnerability. As of this writing the patch has not been released.

Vendor Information

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
Hewlett-Packard CompanyAffected2010-12-082011-05-23

References

https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=bto&cp=1-11-126-17^8_4000_100__

Credit

Thanks to Jeremy Brown for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Michael Orlando.

Other Information

Date Public:2011-05-31
Date First Published:2011-05-31
Date Last Updated:2011-05-31
CERT Advisory: 
CVE-ID(s): 
NVD-ID(s): 
US-CERT Technical Alerts: 
Severity Metric:0.34
Document Revision:11

Original Source

Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/987308

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
72893 HP LoadRunner USR File Directive Parsing Overflow

HP LoadRunner is prone to an overflow condition. The program fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input resulting in a buffer overflow. With specially crafted parsing directives within a Virtual User Script (USR) file, a context-dependent attacker can potentially execute arbitrary code.

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