Rule: 

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Sid: 
8441

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Summary: 
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator or McAfee ProtectionPilot.

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Impact: 
Serious. Execution of code with system level privileges is possible.

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Detailed Information:
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator suffers from poor programming that may allow an attacker to overflow a fixed length buffer and execute code of their choosing with system level privileges on an affected system.

The HTTP server does not properly check user supplied input, a SOURCE header of more than 50 bytes will cause the application to crash.

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Affected Systems:
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.5.0 and prior
McAfee ProtectionPilot 1.1.0 and prior

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Attack Scenarios: 
Exploit code exists in various forms, an attacker can use any one of the scripts to cause the overflow and execute code on the system.

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Ease of Attack: 
Simple. Exploit code is available.

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False Positives:
None known.

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False Negatives:
None known.

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Corrective Action: 
Upgrade to the latest non-affected version.

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Contributors:
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
Matthew Olney <matthew.olney@sourcefire.com>
Nigel Houghton <nigel.houghton@sourcefire.com>

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Additional References:

BackTrack Development Team:
http://www.remote-exploit.org/advisories/mcafee-epo.pdf

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