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 Insomnia Security Vulnerability Advisory: ISVA-080516.1
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 Name: Altiris Deployment Solution - SQL Injection
 Released: 16 May 2008
  
 Vendor Link: 
http://www.altiris.com/ 
  
 Affected Products:
    Altiris Deployment Solution 6.8.x & 6.9.x
 
 Original Advisory: 
http://www.insomniasec.com/advisories/ISVA-080516.1.htm 
 
 Researcher: 
    Brett Moore, Insomnia Security
http://www.insomniasec.com 
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 Description
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Altiris deployment solution is a suite installed to manage the 
configuration and operation of machines on the network. SQL Server 
is used as the backend database. 

Altiris deployment solution listens for connections from the Altiris
client on port 402. It is possible to make a request that will 
result in the exploitation of a SQL Injection vulnerability. This 
leads to database access under the context of the Deployment server,
which typically then allows, command execution under the context of 
the SQL Server.

Note that through access to the SQL server, it is possible to take 
control of all clients managed by the server.
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 Details
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When a client machine that is running Altiris client 'comes alive'
it makes contact with the Deployment server and sends a 
notification packet to alert the server that the client machine 
is available. 

This packet is an ASCII based packet with a terminating NULL 
character.

At least two of the strings contained in this packet can be used 
to inject arbitrary SQL syntax into a SQL call, resulting in 
SQL injection.

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 Solution
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Symantec have released a security update to address this issue;
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2008.05.14a.html 

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 Legals
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The information is provided for research and educational purposes
only. Insomnia Security accepts no liability in any form whatsoever
for any direct or indirect damages associated with the use of this
information.

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Insomnia Security Vulnerability Advisory: ISVA-080516.1
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