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CA Integrated Threat Management, eTrust Antivirus, and eTrust PestPatrol format string vulnerability

Date Discovered:
26 Jun 2006

Date Published:
27 Jun 2006

Last Updated:
27 Jun 2006

Threat Assessment

Overall Risk:  Medium
Popularity : Medium
Impact:  High
Simplicity:  Low

Characteristics

Vulnerability ID:  34325
Discovered By:  Deral Heiland

Exploitable Locally:  Yes
Exploitable Remotely:  Yes

Impact:  Attackers can cause a denial of service condition or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Root Cause:  Software Vulnerability

 

Description

CA Integrated Threat Management, eTrust Antivirus, and eTrust PestPatrol contain a vulnerability that can allow attackers to cause a denial of service condition or possibly execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability is due to improper processing of format strings in the description field of a scan job. An attacker, who can create a scan job containing format string directives, can potentially overwrite memory to cause a crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Recommendations



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For: CA eTrust Antivirus 8.0, CA eTrust PestPatrol 8.0, CA Integrated Threat Management 8.0

Apply the Content Update 432 from the vendor.



Vendor reference:

http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/eitm/infodocs/etrustitmvuln-contentupdate.asp

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Affected Technologies

Computer Associates: CA eTrust Antivirus 8.0
Computer Associates: CA eTrust PestPatrol 8.0
Computer Associates: CA Integrated Threat Management 8.0

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References

Computer Associates: etrustitmvuln
Mitre CVE: CVE-2006-3223

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