Layered Defense Advisory: Format String Vuln in CA eTrust

[Deral Heiland <dh () layereddefense com>]

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                                     Layered Defense Advisory 27 June 2006

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1) Affected Software

Computer Associates: eTrust Antivirus 8.0

Computer Associates: eTrust PestPatrol 8.0

Computer Associates: Integrated Threat Management 8.0

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2) Severity

Rating: Medium risk

Impact: Execution of arbitrary code, rights 
escalation and at a minimum, denial of service.
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3) Description of Vulnerability

A format string vulnerability was discovered 
within etrust Antivirus 8.0. The vulnerability is 
due to improper processing of format strings 
within the scan job description field. An 
attacker could create a scan job containing 
special crafted format strings that could 
potential lead to execution of arbitrary code, 
rights escalation and at a minimum denial of service.

Other effected software identified by vendor:

Computer Associates: eTrust PestPatrol 8.0

Computer Associates: Integrated Threat Management 8.0
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4) Solution

This vulnerability is addressed by vendor in Content
Update build 432.
Client GUI Vulnerability Content Update - build 432
<http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/eitm/infodocs/etrustitmvuln-contentupdate.asp>http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/eitm/infodocs/etrustitmvuln-contentupdate.asp

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5) Time Table

05/04/2006 – Reported Vulnerability to Vendor.
06/27/2006 – Vulnerability fixed & public disclosure.

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6) Credits

Discovered by Deral Heiland, 
www.LayeredDefense.com 
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7) References
CAID: 34325
CAID Advisory link: 
<http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=34325>http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=34325

CVE Reference:
CVE-2006-3223 
<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3223>http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3223

OSVDB Reference:
OSVDB-26654 <http://osvdb.org/26654>http://osvdb.org/26654

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9) About Layered Defense

Layered Defense, Is a group of security 
professionals that work together on ethical 
Research, Testing and Training within the information security arena.

<http://www.layereddefense.com/>http://www.layereddefense.com

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