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Invensys Wonderware InTouch SuiteLink Service Denial of Service Vulnerability


Secunia ID

SA49173

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-3007, CVE-2012-3847

Release Date

16 May 2012

Last Change

01 May 2013

Criticality

Less Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Software

Invensys Wonderware InTouch 10.x

Where

From local network

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

Description

Luigi Auriemma has discovered a vulnerability in Invensys Wonderware InTouch, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the SuiteLink Service (slssvc.exe) when processing certain packets. This can be exploited to cause the service to crash via a specially crafted packet sent to TCP port 5413.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 10.1.300 Build 0268 (slssvc.exe version 51.5.0.0) and reported in the SuiteLink Service versions 54.x.x.x and prior. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution

Update to the SuiteLink Service version 58 or later or install security update patch. Please see original advisory for more details.
https://wdn.wonderware.com/sites/WDN/Pages/Downloads/Software.aspx

Reported by

Luigi Auriemma.

Original Advisory

Luigi Auriemma:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/suitelink_1-adv.txt

ICS-CERT:
http://www.us-cert.gov/control_systems/pdf/ICSA-12-171-01.pdf
http://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/alerts/ICS-ALERT-12-136-01