Advisory Details

February 7th, 2011

(0Day) CA ETrust Secure Content Manager Common Services Transport Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI-11-059
ZDI-CAN-342

CVE ID CVE-2011-0758
CVSS SCORE 10.0, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AFFECTED VENDORS CA
AFFECTED PRODUCTS eTrust Secure Content Manager
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['6184']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS

This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Computer Associates eTrust Secure Content Manager. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists in the eTrust Common Services Transport (ECSQdmn.exe) running on port 1882. When making a request to this service a user supplied DWORD value is used in a memory copy operation. Due to the lack of bounds checking an integer can be improperly calculated leading to a heap overflow. If successfully exploited this vulnerability will result in a remote system compromise with SYSTEM credentials.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS CA has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID={EE6F16E1-6E05-4890-A739-2B9F745C721F}
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE
  • 2008-05-23 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2011-02-07 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT Sebastian Apelt (sebastian.apelt@siberas.de)
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