CAID 34325 - CA ITM, eAV, ePP scan job description field format string vulnerability

Title: CAID 34325 - CA ITM, eAV, ePP scan job description field format
string vulnerability

CA Vulnerability ID: 34325

CA Advisory Date: 2006-06-26

Discovered By: Deral Heiland (www.layereddefense.com)

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

Summary: 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 execute arbitrary code.

Mitigating Factors: None

Severity: CA has given this vulnerability a Medium risk rating.

Affected Products:
CA Integrated Threat Management r8
eTrust Antivirus r8
eTrust PestPatrol Anti-spyware Corporate Edition r8

Status and Recommendation: This vulnerability is addressed in Content
Update build 432. Use the content update mechanism to install this
update.

References: (URLs may wrap)

CA SupportConnect:
http://supportconnect.ca.com/

Client GUI Vulnerability Content Update - build 432
http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/eitm/infodocs/etrustitmvuln-content
update.asp

CAID: 34325
CAID Advisory link:
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

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

Changelog for this advisory:
v1.0 - Initial Release

Customers who require additional information should contact CA
Technical Support at http://supportconnect.ca.com.

For technical questions or comments related to this advisory,
please send email to [email protected], or contact me directly.

If you discover a vulnerability in CA products, please report
your findings to [email protected], or utilize our "Submit a
Vulnerability" form.
URL: http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/submit.aspx

Regards,
Ken Williams ; 0xE2941985
Director, CA Vulnerability Research

CA, One Computer Associates Plaza. Islandia, NY 11749

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