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CA Products Scan Job Description Format String Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA20856
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Release Date:
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2006-06-28
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Last Update:
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2006-06-30
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Popularity:
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7,149 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | CA Anti-Spyware 8.x
CA Anti-Virus for the Enterprise 8.x
CA Threat Manager 8.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-3223
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in some CA products, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error within the handling of the description field of a scan job. This can be exploited to cause the affect products to crash and may allow arbitrary code execution via a specially crafted scan job description that contains format string specifiers.
Successful exploitation requires that the user is able to create a scan job.
The vulnerability has been reported in the following products:
* CA Integrated Threat Management r8
* eTrust Antivirus r8
* eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware Corporate Edition r8
Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in Content Update build 432 via the content update mechanism.
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Deral Heiland.
Changelog:
2006-06-30: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=34325
http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/...odocs/etrustitmvuln-contentupdate.asp
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