Description: TIBCO Rendezvous and Enterprise Message Service vulnerabilities
Original release date: February 1, 2011 Last revised: -- Source: TIBCO Software Inc.
Systems Affected
TIBCO Rendezvous versions 8.2.1 through 8.3.0 TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) versions 5.1.0 through 6.0.0 TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA) versions 5.6.2 through 5.7.0 TIBCO Silver BPM Service versions below 1.0.4 TIBCO Silver CAP Service versions below 1.0.2 TIBCO Silver BusinessWorks Service version 1.0.0
TIBCO Rendezvous and EMS components listed above contain a SUID vulnerability which could potentially grant unauthorized root access to an attacker on Unix-based systems.
I. Description
TIBCO has released updates that address a critical vulnerability in server components of TIBCO Rendezvous and EMS. TIBCO strongly recommends sites running the affected components to install the update or take mitigating action as appropriate.
II. Impact
On Unix-based systems a successful attack will result in a privilege escalation to root, granting the attacker full administrative control of the host.
III. Solution
For each affected system, update to the corresponding software versions:
TIBCO Rendezvous version 8.3.1 or higher TIBCO Enterprise Message Service 6.0.1 or higher TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA) version 5.7.1 or higher TIBCO Silver BPM Service version 1.0.4 or higher TIBCO Silver CAP Service version 1.0.2 or higher TIBCO Silver BusinessWorks Service version 1.0.1 or higher
This is strongly recommended.
If an upgrade is not possible, the vulnerability can be completely mitigated by disabling SUID rights for all affected components.
Note: Customers that are Using TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid, TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Bus, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM, or TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Service Engine must also run TIBCO Rendezvous Updater for ActiveMatrix 1.0.0 after upgrading TIBCO Rendezvous to version 8.3.1 so that these products use the correct Rendezvous version. Please see the FAQ at http://www.tibco.com/mk/advisory.jsp for further detail