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CA20091208-01: Security Notice for CA Service Desk

Published: December 09 2009, 10:00 AM | no comments
by Kevin Kotas

On Tuesday, December 9th, 2009, I published a new security notice, CA20091208-01, that describes a low risk cross-site scripting issue with CA Service Desk. At the time of this post, we are not aware of any active exploitation in the wild. See the link below for patch and other information.

CA20091208-01: Security Notice for CA Service Desk
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=223999

Kevin Kotas
CA Product Vulnerability Response Team

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CA20091008-01: Security Notice for CA Anti-Virus Engine

Published: October 09 2009, 08:54 AM | no comments
by Ken Williams

On Thursday, October 8, the CA Product Vulnerability Response Team published a security notice to address two vulnerability issues in the anti-virus engine.  Both of the vulnerabilities are considered to be medium risk issues.  We're not aware of any active exploitation of these vulnerabilities.  Note that if your product is configured for automatic updates, you should already be protected, and you need to take no action.  The security notice can be found at the link below.

CA20091008-01: Security Notice for CA Anti-Virus Engine
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=218878

Regards,
Ken Williams
Director, CA Product Vulnerability Response Team

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New security notices CA20090818-01, CA20090818-02

Published: August 18 2009, 01:42 PM | no comments
by Kevin Kotas

Today, the Product Vulnerability Response Team has published two new security notices. The first, CA20090818-01, is a remotely exploitable denial of service in CA HIPS and is rated as a high risk vulnerability. The second, CA20090818-02, affects CA ISS and is a low risk local denial of service. At the time of this post, we are not aware of any reports about these vulnerabilities being actively exploited. See the links below for additional details.

CA20090818-01: Security Notice for CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=214665

CA20090818-02: Security Notice for CA Internet Security Suite
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=214673

Kevin Kotas
CA Product Vulnerability Response Team

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Two new security notices, CA20090806-01 and CA20090806-02

Published: August 06 2009, 06:29 PM | no comments
by Kevin Kotas

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Hello,

Kevin Kotas here from the CA Product Vulnerability Response Team. We've published two new security notices today; one high risk and one medium. At the time of this writing, we are not aware of any reports about these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild. Follow the links below for further details.

CA20090806-01: Security Notice for Data Transport Services
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=214090 

CA20090806-02: Security Notice for Unicenter Asset Portfolio Management, Unicenter Desktop and Server Management, Unicenter Patch Management
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=214095

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CA20090615-02: CA Service Desk Tomcat Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Published: June 15 2009, 10:30 PM | no comments
by Ken Williams

On June 15th, 2009, CA published a security notice to address a vulnerability in CA Service Desk.

Title: CA20090615-02: CA Service Desk Tomcat Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

CA Advisory Reference: CA20090615-02

CA Advisory Date: 2009-06-15

Impact: A remote attacker can inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

Summary: The release of Tomcat as included with CA Service Desk r11.2 is potentially susceptible to a cross-site scripting vulnerability.  CA has issued a technical document that describes remediation procedures.

Mitigating Factors: None

Severity: CA has given this vulnerability a Medium risk rating.

Affected Products:
CA Service Desk r11.2

Affected Platforms:
Windows, Unix

Status and Recommendation:
Follow the instructions in technical document TEC489643.

How to determine if the installation is affected:
Customers can use the instructions in technical document TEC489643 to determine if an installation may be affected.

Workaround:
None

References (URLs may wrap):
CA Support:
https://support.ca.com/
CA20090615-02: Security Notice for CA Service Desk
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=209500
Solution Document Reference APARs:
TEC489643
CA Security Response Blog posting:
CA20090615-02: CA Service Desk Tomcat Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
http://community.ca.com/blogs/casecurityresponseblog/archive/2009/06/15.aspx
CVE References:
CVE-2008-1232
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1232
OSVDB References: Pending
http://osvdb.org/

Changelog for this advisory:
v1.0 - Initial Release

Customers who require additional information should contact CA Technical Support at https://support.ca.com.

For technical questions or comments related to this advisory, please send email to vuln AT ca DOT com.

If you discover a vulnerability in CA products, please report your findings to the CA Product Vulnerability Response Team.
https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=177782

The opinions and statements on this site are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of CA.

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Ken Williams is a Director with the CA Vulnerability Research Team. As a veteran vulnerability researcher, Ken has worked as the Director of the CA Vulnerability Research Team and eVM Research Team, Director of Vulnerability Research at eSecurityOnline, Manager of the Vulnerability Research Team at Ernst...
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