Secunia Security Advisory - Erika Mendoza has reported a vulnerability in CA iGateway, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
CA iGateway Debug Mode HTTP GET Request Buffer Overflow
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17085
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17085/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
CA iGateway 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/5821/
CA iGateway 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5820/
DESCRIPTION:
Erika Mendoza has reported a vulnerability in CA iGateway, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when parsing HTTP
GET requests. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and
allows arbitrary code execution.
Successful exploitation requires that debug mode is enabled.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 3.0 and 4.0 released
prior to 2005-06-23.
Note: Exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly available.
SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends that iGateway should not be run in debug mode.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Erika Mendoza
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www3.ca.com/threatinfo/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=33485
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