Check Point Advisories

CA eTrust Intrusion Detection Encryption Key Handling Denial of Service (CVE-2007-1005)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2007-241
Date Published: 26 Oct 2009
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 26 October, 2009
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-1005
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description CA eTrust Intrusion Detection product offers network access control and monitoring. It monitors and filters the network traffic, detects and blocks viruses or other intrusions. Moreover, it provides centralized monitoring of local and remote stations. There exists a memory corruption vulnerability in CA eTrust Intrusion Detection. The flaw is due to an input validation error in the administrative login functionality of the eTrust Intrusion Detection server. A remote unauthenticated attacker may leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition on the vulnerable system. The affected service will terminate after processing the malicious message, creating a denial-of-service condition. This will cause all the other active network connections to the server to be dropped and the service needs to be restarted manually to restore the functionality.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the CA eTrust Intrusion Detection Encryption Key Handling Denial of Service protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Security Products Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  CA eTrust Intrusion Detection encryption key handling denial of service

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