Title: Symantec Ghost Configuration Server DoS Attack
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Symantec Ghost is an application used for enterprise wide remote PC deployment, recovery, cloning, and migration. It enables and administrator to deploy or restore an OS image or application onto a PC and migrate user settings and profiles to customize the PC. The configuration server component in Ghost is susceptible to a trivial denial of service which may initiated by a remote attacker.
The configuration server resides on port 1347. A remote attacker may connect to port 1347 without possessing any authorization and enter a buffer comprised of approximately 45 kilobytes. This would cause the application to generate the following error and shut down:
Symantec Ghost Configuration Server
An exception has occurred of type c0000005
D:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost\ngserver.exe 6.5.1.144
[ Limited backtrace only ]
memmove+0x33
StreamInterchange::doDispatch+0x1b2
StreamInterchange::readEvent+0x13e
SocketEvent::dispatch+0x33
SocketEvent::wait+0x203"
Restarting Ghost would be required in order to regain normal functionality.
Affected Products:
- Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition 6.5.0
References:
- Symantec: Ghost Product Homepage
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