CA Product AV Engine CAB Header Parsing Stack Overflow
Severity: CRITICAL
Advisory Date: FEB 15, 2011
DESCRIPTION
Stack-based buffer overflow in the Anti-Virus engine before content update 30.6 in multiple CA (formerly Computer Associates) products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large invalid value of the coffFiles field in a .CAB file.
TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION
Trend Micro Deep Security shields networks through Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) rules. Trend Micro customers using OfficeScan with Intrusion Defense Firewall (IDF) plugin are also protected from attacks using these vulnerabilities. Please refer to the filter number and filter name when applying appropriate DPI and/or IDF rules.
SOLUTION
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1001009
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Name: 1001009 - CA Product AV Engine CAB Header Parsing Stack Overflow
AFFECTED SOFTWARE AND VERSION
- Computer Associates Anti-Virus r8
- Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup 10.5
- Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup 11.0
- Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup 11.1
- Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup 11.5
- Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup 9.01
- Computer Associates Common Services 1.0
- Computer Associates Common Services 1.1
- Computer Associates Common Services 2.0
- Computer Associates Common Services 2.1
- Computer Associates Common Services 2.2
- Computer Associates Common Services 3.0
- Computer Associates Integrated Threat Management 8.0
- Computer Associates Internet Security Suite 1.0
- Computer Associates Internet Security Suite 2.0
- Computer Associates Internet Security Suite 2007 v3.0
- Computer Associates Protection Suites r2
- Computer Associates Protection Suites r3
- Computer Associates Unicenter Network and Systems Management 11
- Computer Associates Unicenter Network and Systems Management 11.1
- Computer Associates Unicenter Network and Systems Management 3.0
- Computer Associates Unicenter Network and Systems Management 3.1
- Computer Associates eTrust Anti-Virus SDK
- Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus 2007 8.1
- Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus 8.0
- Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus for the Gateway 7.1
- Computer Associates eTrust EZ Antivirus 6.1
- Computer Associates eTrust EZ Antivirus 7.0
- Computer Associates eTrust EZ Armor 1.0
- Computer Associates eTrust EZ Armor 2.0
- Computer Associates eTrust EZ Armor 3.0
- Computer Associates eTrust EZ Armor 3.1
- Computer Associates eTrust Secure Content Manager 8.0
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