TITLE:
CA eTrust Antivirus Masked Proxy Password Disclosure

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13267

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13267/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
eTrust Antivirus 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/2198/

DESCRIPTION:
Cengiz Aykanat has reported a security issue in eTrust Antivirus,
which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
features.

The problem is that it is possible to bypass the password protection
feature and gain knowledge of the masked proxy password using various
publicly available tools.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 7.0.2.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Cengiz Aykanat

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?id=31832

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