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CVE-2007-2523

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-05-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

CA Anti-Virus for the Enterprise r8 and Threat Manager r8 before 20070510 use weak permissions (NULL security descriptor) for the Task Service shared file mapping, which allows local users to modify this mapping and gain privileges by triggering a stack-based buffer overflow in InoCore.dll before 8.0.448.0.

Affected products

• Broadcom Integrated Threat Management: 8.0
• Ca Anti-Virus For The Enterprise: 8

References

• http://blog.48bits.com/?p=103
• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=530
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-May/063275.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25202
• http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/antivirus/infodocs/caav-secnotice050807.asp
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/788416
• http://www.osvdb.org/34586
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468306/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23906
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018043
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1750
• http://blog.48bits.com/?p=103

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