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CA Multiple Product AV Engine CAB Header Parsing Stack Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-07-035: June 5th, 2007

CVE ID

Affected Vendors

Affected Products

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on
vulnerable installations of various Computer Associates products.

The specific flaw exists within the processing of an improperly defined "coffFiles" field in .CAB archives. Large values result in an unbounded data copy operation which can result in an exploitable stack-based buffer overflow.

Vendor Response

Computer Associates has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:

Disclosure Timeline

    2007-02-16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2007-06-05 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    Anonymous