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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

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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


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

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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

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