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TITLE:
CA eTrust Intrusion Detection CPImportKey Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14837

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14837/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
eTrust Intrusion Detection 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/3390/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in CA eTrust Intrusion Detection,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when
passing arguments to the "CPImportKey()" API and can be exploited via
a specially crafted packet sent to the eID Engine (default port
9191/tcp).

Successful exploitation consumes all available memory resources.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 3.0 and 3.0.5 (SP1).

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

eTrust Intrusion Detection 3.0 (QO66181):
http://supportconnectw.ca.com/premium/etrust/etrust_intrusion/downloads/eid-solpatch_r30.asp#rel30

eTrust Intrusion Detection 3.0 SP1 (QO66178):
http://supportconnectw.ca.com/premium/etrust/etrust_intrusion/downloads/eid-solpatch_r30.asp#rel30sp1

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by anonymous person and reported via iDEFENSE.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=223&type=vulnerabilities

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