Layered Defense Advisory: TrendMicro OfficesScan Corporate Edition Format String Vulnerability
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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