CA eTrust PestPatrol 8.0 memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in CA eTrust PestPatrol 8.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Format string vulnerability in CA Integrated Threat Management (ITM), eTrust Antivirus (eAV), and eTrust PestPatrol (ePP) r8 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a scan job with format strings in the description field.

The bug was discovered 06/27/2006. The weakness was presented 06/27/2006 by Deral Heiland (Website). The advisory is shared for download at www3.ca.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-3223 since 06/25/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/24/2019).

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115385 (CA eTrust Antivirus WebScan Multiple Vulnerabilities).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (27374). See 31077 and 31070 for similar entries.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Vendor: ca.com

Advisory: www3.ca.com
Researcher: Deral Heiland
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-3223 (🔍)
X-Force: 27374
SecurityTracker: 1016391
Vulnerability Center: 12575 - Computer Associates (CA) Multiple Products Format String Vulnerability, High
SecurityFocus: 18689 - Computer Associates Scan Job Format String Vulnerability
Secunia: 20856 - CA Products Scan Job Description Format String Vulnerability, Less Critical
OSVDB: 26654 - CA Multiple Products Scan Job Description Field Format String
Vupen: ADV-2006-2565

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Created: 03/12/2015 14:25
Updated: 06/24/2019 16:12
Changes: 03/12/2015 14:25 (71), 06/24/2019 16:12 (3)
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