CVE-2012-0406 Information

Description

The DPA_Utilities.cProcessAuthenticationData function in EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) 5.5 through 5.8 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an AUTHENTICATECONNECTION command that (1) lacks a password field or (2) has an empty password.

Reference

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/dpa_1-adv.txt http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18688/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522408/30/0/threaded http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026956