FrSIRT - CA Products DSM "gui_cm_ctrls" ActiveX Code Execution Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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CA Products DSM "gui_cm_ctrls" ActiveX Code Execution Vulnerability

Title : CA Products DSM "gui_cm_ctrls" ActiveX Code Execution Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1249
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1786
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-17

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in various CA products, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by input validation errors in the DSM "gui_cm_ctrls" ActiveX control when handling user-supplied arguments, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Greg Linares (eEye Digital Security).

ChangeLog

2008-04-17 : Initial release

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