Check Point Advisories

CA Secure Content Manager FTP Gateway LIST Command Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-2541)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2008-302
Date Published: 26 Aug 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Tuesday 22 November, 2011
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2008-2541
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description CA eTrust Secure Content Manager (SCM) is a gateway product for Windows platform that secures, monitors, filters and blocks potential threats from messaging and Web traffic. It provides protection against malware, spam, phishing, P2P file sharing and prevents access to known spyware sites. All CA SCM installations can be administered through a central management console. There exists a buffer overflow vulnerability in CA eTrust Secure Content Manager. The vulnerability is due to an insufficient bounds checking on certain FTP responses. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted FTP LIST response to the target server, potentially causing arbitrary code injection and execution with the privileges of the affected process, normally System. In case of an attack where code injection and execution is successful, the behavior of the target host will depend on the intended purpose of the injected code. Any code injected will run within the security context of the affected service, normally System. In case of an attack where code injection is not successful, the server process will terminate due to memory corruption, causing a denial of service condition.

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 Secure Content Manager FTP Gateway LIST Command Buffer Overflow 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:  FTP Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  CA Secure Content Manager FTP gateway LIST command buffer overflow

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