Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus Malicious Code Detection Bypass Vulnerability

BID:9665

Info

Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus Malicious Code Detection Bypass Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9665
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 16 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 16 2004 12:00AM
Credit: The disclosure of this issue has been credited to the vendor.
Vulnerable: Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus EE 7.0
Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus EE 6.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus Malicious Code Detection Bypass Vulnerability

It has been reported that eTrust Antivirus is prone to a vulnerability that may allow malicious code to bypass detection. The issue occurs when a ZIP archive containing a password-protected file is scanned. It has been reported that the software fails to scan any files in the archive once the password-protected file has been scanned.

Exploit / POC

Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus Malicious Code Detection Bypass Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

Solution / Fix

Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus Malicious Code Detection Bypass Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released a fix (QO50563.CAZ) to address this issue in eTrust Antivirus 7.0 0302 level (Build 139) or higher. An additional fix (QO51215.CAZ) has been released to address this issue in eTrust Antivirus 6.0 0108 level (Build 96) or higher. A fix (QO52087.CAZ) has also been released to address this issue in 0108 level (Build 96) or higher of eTrust Antivirus Enterprise Edition on Windows 95/98/Me systems.


Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus EE 6.0

Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus EE 7.0

References

Computer Associates eTrust Antivirus Malicious Code Detection Bypass Vulnerability

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