CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-3223

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A 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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could remotely or locally crash the antivirus service and potentially execute arbitrary code, leading to a serious threat to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected data.

Recommendation

Immediately update CA ITM, eAV, and ePP r8 to the latest patched version, and until then restrict the ability to create scan jobs to trusted users only.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS