SecurityReason - TrendMicro OfficesScan Corporate Edition Format String Vulnerability

Advisory Text :

Layered Defense Research Advisory 1 October 2006

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1) Affected Software TrendMicro OfficeScan Corporate Edition 7.3

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2) Severity

Rating: Medium risk

Impact: Execution of arbitrary code, potential remote exploit, and denial
of service.

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3) Description of Vulnerability A format string vulnerability was
discovered within Trendmicro OfficeScan Corporate Edition 7.3. The
vulnerability is due to improper processing of format strings within
OfficeScan Management consoles ActiveX Control "ATXCONSOLE.OCX". Specially
crafted format string passed back to the Management consoles Remote Client
Install name search would allow access to the process stack. If
successfully exploited, this could allow the user to execute code of the
attackers choice on the system running the ActiveX management Console.

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4) Solution The solutions to fix this vulnerability is addressed by
OfficeScan Corporate Edition 7.3 Patch 1

http://www.trendmicro.com/download/product.asp?productid=5

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5) Time Table

06/27/2006 -- Reported Vulnerability to Vendor.

06/30/2006 -- Vendor supplied hot fix to Layered Defense for testing.

09/21/2006 -- Vendor releases fix in Patch 1 to public.

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6) Credits Discovered by Deral Heiland, www.LayeredDefense.com

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7) About Layered Defense Research

Layered Defense Research, Is a group of security professionals that work
together on ethical Research, Testing and Training within the information
security arena.

http://www.layereddefense.com

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