Date: 18 Dec 2007 20:14:02 -0000
From: research@...antec.com
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: SYMSA-2007-015

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1



                     Symantec Vulnerability Research                                   
                     http://www.symantec.com/research
                           Security Advisory

   Advisory ID: SYMSA-2007-015
Advisory Title: Perforce P4Web Denial Of Service through resource 
                starvation
        Author: Oliver Karow / Oliver_Karow@...antec.com
  Release Date: 19 DEC 2007
   Application: Perforce 2006.1
      Platform: Win32
      Severity: Remotely exploitable - Denial Of Service
 Vendor status: Resolved
    CVE Number: CVE-2007-6349
     Reference: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26806

Overview: 

- From wikipedia: "Perforce is a commercial Revision Control (RC) 
system. It is developed by Perforce Software, Inc. and was founded 
in 1995 by Christopher Seiwald. The Perforce system is based on a 
client/server model with the server managing the collection of 
source versions in one or more depots. The server software runs on 
the Unix, Mac OS X, or Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The client provides graphical and command line tools for a large 
number of operating systems. Also available is a suite of plugins 
that integrate with various programming IDEs and third party 
applications, such as XCode, Autodesk 3D Studio Max, Alias Maya, 
Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Eclipse and Emacs.

Other features of the system include support for reporting 
(i.e. notifying users when a file has changed), branching and 
merging, and defect tracking."

There is a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in the P4Web Daemon
which make it possible to enforce a full CPU usage of the system, by
sending a single, special crafted HTTP request.


Details: 

A single HTTP request with the Content-Length header variable set 
to a value greater than zero in a request which no body, will cause
the P4Webs.exe process to consume 99% of CPU time on the target 
system. of up to 99%.

The attack can be executed remotely. No authentication is required 
for exploitation.


Vendor Response:
    Perforce has confirmed an issue with Windows-based operating
    systems and P4Web versions 2006.2 and prior that can result
    in the P4Web host machine becoming unusable due to excessive
    CPU usage. This was discovered by our QA department in
    February of 2007, and addressed in our 2007.2 release.

Recommendation:
    Users concerned about this issue should upgrade to P4Web
    2007.2 or later, available at no charge from:
        ftp://ftp.perforce.com/perforce/r07.2/bin.ntx86/p4webinst.exe


Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Information:


The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned 
the following names to these issues.  These are candidates for 
inclusion in the CVE list (http://cve.mitre.org), which standardizes 
names for security problems.

CVE-2007-6349

- -------Symantec Consulting Services Advisory Information-------

For questions about this advisory, or to report an error:
cs_advisories@...antec.com

For details on Symantec's Vulnerability Reporting Policy: 
http://www.symantec.com/research/Symantec-Responsible-Disclosure.pdf

Consulting Services Advisory Archive: 
http://www.symantec.com/research/  

Consulting Services Advisory PGP Key:
http://www.symantec.com/research/Symantec_Consulting_Services_Advisories_PGP.asc

- -------------Symantec Product Advisory Information-------------

To Report a Security Vulnerability in a Symantec Product:
secure@...antec.com 

For general information on Symantec's Product Vulnerability 
reporting and response:
http://www.symantec.com/security/

Symantec Product Advisory Archive: 
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/SymantecAdvisories.html

Symantec Product Advisory PGP Key:
http://www.symantec.com/security/Symantec-Vulnerability-Management-Key.asc

- ---------------------------------------------------------------

Copyright (c) 2007 by Symantec Corp.
Permission to redistribute this alert electronically is granted 
as long as it is not edited in any way unless authorized by 
Symantec Consulting Services. Reprinting the whole or part of 
this alert in any medium other than electronically requires 
permission from cs_advisories@...antec.com.

Disclaimer
The information in the advisory is believed to be accurate at the 
time of publishing based on currently available information. Use 
of the information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS 
condition. There are no warranties with regard to this information. 
Neither the author nor the publisher accepts any liability for any 
direct, indirect, or consequential loss or damage arising from use 
of, or reliance on, this information.

Symantec, Symantec products, and Symantec Consulting Services are 
registered trademarks of Symantec Corp. and/or affiliated companies 
in the United States and other countries. All other registered and 
unregistered trademarks represented in this document are the sole 
property of their respective companies/owners.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFHaCx/uk7IIFI45IARAgT0AKCeOqwe0X+otU9ipBRsyZrloXRwnQCeO81L
KnCl3WqUuM9HdIvyfI77crs=
=Jrog
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Powered by blists - more mailing lists