CA20090818-02: Security Notice for CA Internet Security Suite
Issued: August 18, 2009
CA's technical support is alerting customers to a security risk with CA Internet Security Suite. A vulnerability exists that can allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service. CA has issued updates to address the vulnerability.
The vulnerability, CVE-2009-0682, is due to insufficient verification of IOCTL calls by the vetmonnt.sys driver. An attacker can send a malicious IOCTL call that will cause a crash.
Risk Rating
Medium
Platform
Windows
Affected Products
CA Internet Security Suite r3
CA Internet Security Suite r4 32 bit
CA Internet Security Suite r5 32 bit
How to determine if the installation is affected
- From the Internet Security Suite user interface, select Help->About
to show the version. If the displayed version is less than what is
indicated in the below table, the installation is vulnerable.
Product
Version
Internet Security Suite r4
9.0.0.184
Internet Security Suite r5
10.0.0.217
Solution
CA Internet Security Suite r3:
Upgrade to Internet Security Suite r5 and apply the latest updates.
CA Internet Security Suite r4 32 bit,
CA Internet Security Suite r5 32 bit:
Ensure automatic update is enabled and once updated, confirm the
version as described in the How to determine if the installation is
affected section.
References
CVE-2009-0682 - vetmonnt.sys IOCTL crash
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0682
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Acknowledgement
CVE-2009-0682 - Nikita Tarakanov, Positive Technologies Research Team
Change History
Version 1.0: Initial Release
If additional information is required, please contact CA Support at
http://support.ca.com/
If you discover a vulnerability in CA products, please report your findings to the CA Product Vulnerability Response Team.
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Kevin Kotas
CA Product Vulnerability Response Team