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CVE-2007-0446: HP Mercury Loadrunner Agent: Buffer overflow

CVE-2007-0446 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects HP Mercury Loadrunner Agent, along with 2 other products in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Stack-based buffer overflow in magentproc.exe for Hewlett-Packard Mercury LoadRunner Agent 8.0 and 8.1, Performance Center Agent 8.0 and 8.1, and Monitor over Firewall 8.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a packet with a long server_ip_name field to TCP port 54345, which triggers the overflow in mchan.dll.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • HP Mercury Loadrunner Agent: 8.0; 8.1
  • HP Mercury Monitor Over Firewall: 8.1
  • HP Mercury Performance Center Agent: 8.0; 8.1

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