CVE-2011-2667: broadcom total_defense

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-2667 is a high (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in broadcom total_defense. EPSS estimates a 16.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 28-07-2011
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Icihttp.exe in CA Gateway Security for HTTP, as used in CA Gateway Security 8.1 before 8.1.0.69 and CA Total Defense r12, does not properly parse URLs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and daemon crash) via a malformed request.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.