RealWin DATAC Control Buffer Overflow (Oct 1, 2008)

RealWin is a SCADA server product that monitors and controls a industrial, infrastructure or facility based process in a computer system. A SCADA System usually consists of a Human-Machine Interface, a supervisory system and a Remote Terminal Units. RealWin, as a SCADA system, can read and maintain data returned from field devices using drivers, store data for historical access, run CSL (Command Sequence Language) scripts and generate alarms as defined in the system.

There is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in DATAC Control RealWin SCADA System server product 2.0 and prior. The vulnerability is due to a boundary error while parsing a crafted value in a FC_INFOTAG/SET_CONTROL packet.

A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted FC_INFOTAG_SET_CONTROL packet. Successful exploitation would allow for arbitrary code injection and execution with the privileges of the affected service, or terminate the application resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

SonicWALL has released a generic IPS signature that will detect and prevent attacks targeting this vulnerability. The signature to address this vulnerability is:

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