From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Jun 28 2006 - 07:02:05 CDT

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TITLE:
CA Products Scan Job Description Format String Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20856

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20856/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
From local network

SOFTWARE:
CA eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware Corporate Edition 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/10673/
CA Integrated Threat Management (ITM) 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/7112/
eTrust Antivirus 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/10672/

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.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=34325
http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/eitm/infodocs/etrustitmvuln-contentupdate.asp

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