Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers Teradata Gateway Remote DoS Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a critical denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Teradata tgtw and TDExpress.
Teradata is a leading provider of powerful enterprise big data analytics and services that include Data Warehousing, Data Driven Marketing, BI and CRM.
A remote DoS vulnerability exists in Teradata tgtw and TDExpress. This vulnerability is caused due to insufficient validation on a malformed CONFIG REQUEST message, which can subsequently cause a database crash. A malicious user could, therefore, craft a malformed request message that results in a denial of service.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

Teradata.Gateway.Remote.DoS
Released Jul 20, 2015
The vendor has fixed them in following versions:
tgtw-15.00.03.02-1
tgtw-15.10.00.01-1
TDExpress15.00.02.08_Sles10_40GB_vp.7z
TDExpress15.00.02.08_Sles11_40GB.7z

Additional Information

Authentication is not required to exploit this DoS vulnerability. So its severity is very high due to the high exploitability.

References

• http://www.teradata.com/
• CVE-2015-5401

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Honggang Ren of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

IPS Subscription

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