Overview
Computer Associates AntiVirus for the Enterprise and Threat Manager products contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that may be exploited by local users to execute code with elevated privileges.
Description
Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus v8 includes a component called InoTask. InoTask is used to schedule and lauch tasks and programs. The InoTask process contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. By sending malformed data to the InoTask process, a user may be able to execute code with elevated privileges. Note that publicly available exploit code exists for this vulnerability. |
Impact
A local user may be able to execute code with system privileges. |
Solution
Upgrade |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
| Environmental |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to iDefense for information that was used in this report. iDefense credits binagres for discovering this vulnerability.
This document was written by Ryan Giobbi.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2007-2523 |
| Severity Metric: | 0.29 |
| Date Public: | 2007-05-11 |
| Date First Published: | 2007-05-11 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2007-06-20 19:59 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 15 |