ZDI-09-052: CA Unicenter Software Delivery dtscore.dll Stack Overflow
Vulnerability
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-052
August 7, 2009

-- Affected Vendors:
Computer Associates

-- Affected Products:
Computer Associates Unicenter Software Delivery

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vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 5593.
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-- Vulnerability Details:
This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on
vulnerable installations of Computer Associates Unicenter Software
Delivery. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw resides in the dtscore.dll library. The vulnerability
is exposed through multiple processes listening on multiple ports. The
vulnerable function is a token searching routine which will copy user
supplied data into a fixed length stack buffer. Exploitation of this
vulnerability leads to arbitrary code execution under the context of the
SYSTEM user.

-- Vendor Response:
Computer Associates has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More
details can be found at:

https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=214090

-- Disclosure Timeline:
2007-09-14 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2009-08-07 - Coordinated public release of advisory

-- Credit:
This vulnerability was discovered by:
    * Orlando Padilla and Peter Silberman

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