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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) References
CVE Reference:
CVE-2006-5157 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5157
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8) 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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Layered Defense Research Advisory 1 October 2006
===============================================================
1) Affected Software
TrendMicro OfficeScan Corporate Edition 7.3
===============================================================
2) Severity
Rating: Medium risk
Impact: Execution of arbitrary code, potential remote exploit, and denial of service.
===============================================================
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.
===============================================================
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
===============================================================
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) References
CVE Reference:
CVE-2006-5157 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5157
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8) 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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