IP Office SoftConsole Buffer Overflow

Original Release Date: November 3, 2017
Last Revised: November 3, 2017
Number: ASA-2017-307
Overall Severity Classification: Medium
Advisory Version: 1.0
Advisory Status: Final

1. Overview:

IP Office™ Platform provides a single, stackable, scalable small business communications system that grows with your business easily and cost-effectively.
The SoftConsole client is a separately installable application provided with IP Office. It was discovered that when the SoftConsole connects to IP Office, it appears to place the response from the server into a variable without proper bounds checking. If a malicious server responds with an excessive amount of data, this data will overflow the buffer and overwrite the instruction pointer for the process.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2017-11309 to this issue.

Avaya would like to thank John (hyp3rlinx) Page of ApparitionSec for reporting this issue.

2. Avaya System Products that provide an affected version of SoftConsole:

For assessment and severity classification details refer to Section 3 of Avaya's Product Security Vulnerability Response Policy.
The "Resolution" column will be updated as fixes are made available. Please reference the "Information" column for any additional information regarding the affected product.

Product: Version(s): Resolution: Information:
Avaya IP Office 9.1.x, 10.0 through 10.1 10.1.1 or later This buffer overflow vulnerability could potentially be used to execute malicious code on a system running the SoftConsole application that connects to a malicious server.

CVSS 3.0 Scoring and Metrics:

Avaya uses the Common Vulnerability Scoring System version 3 (CVSSv3) base score and metrics as reported by the vendor for the affected component(s) or by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the National Vulnerability Database. In some cases, such as where CVSS information is not available from the vendor or NIST, Avaya will calculate the CVSSv3 base score and metrics. Customers are encouraged to calculate the Temporal and Environmental CVSSv3 scores to determine how the vulnerability could affect their specific implementation or environment. For more information on CVSS and how the score is calculated, see Common Vulnerability Scoring System v3.0: Specification Document.

Vulnerability CVSSv3 Base Score CVSSv3 Metrics
CVE-2017-11309
6.9 (Medium) CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L

3. Additional Information:

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5. Revision History:

V 1.0 - November 3, 2017 - Initial Statement issued.

Avaya customers or Business Partners should report any security issues found with Avaya products via the standard support process.
Independent security researchers can contact Avaya at securityalerts@avaya.com.

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