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Vahagn Vardanian

Vahagn Vardanian

Co-founder and CTO of RedRays

Memory Corruption vulnerability in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform, SAP security note 2614229

Description

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform allows an attacker to leverage logical errors in memory management to cause a memory corruption.

Some well-known impacts of Memory Corruption vulnerability are –

  • system information disclosure or system crash in worst cases
  • vulnerability might have direct impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability of a system
  • information gathered can be used to craft further attacks, possibly with more severe consequences

CVSS Information

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 / 10
CVSS v3 Base Vector:

AV : Attack Vector (Related exploit range)

Network (N)

AC : Attack Complexity (Required attack complexity)

High (H)

PR : Privileges Required (Level of privileges needed to exploit)

Low (L)

UI : User Interaction (Required user participation)

None (N)

S : Scope (Change in scope due to impact caused to components beyond the vulnerable component)

Unchanged (U)

C : Impact to Confidentiality

High (H)

I : Impact to Integrity

High (H)

A : Impact to Availability

High (H)

SAP provides this CVSS v3 base score as an estimate of the risk posed by the issue reported in this note. This estimate does not take into account your own system configuration or operational environment. It is not intended to replace any risk assessments you are advised to conduct when deciding on the applicability or priority of this SAP security note. For more information, see the FAQ section at https://support.sap.com/securitynotes.

Available fix and Supported packages

  • ENTERPRISE | 410 | 410
  • ENTERPRISE | 420 | 420
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.1 | SP009 | 000013
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.1 | SP010 | 000007
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.1 | SP011 | 000200
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.1 | SP012 | 000000
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.2 | SP004 | 000009
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.2 | SP005 | 000400
  • SBOP BI PLATFORM SERVERS 4.2 | SP006 | 000000

Affected component

    BI-RA-WBI-BE-DP
    Data Provider

CVSS

Score: 0

PoC

Detailed vulnerability information added to RedRays Security Platform. Contact [email protected] for details.

URL

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2614229

TAGS

#Buffer-overflow
#heap-overflow
#memory-leaks
#dangling-pointers
#null-pointer-dereferences&65279
#&160-CVE-2015-5237

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