CVE-2005-1693: Broadcom Etrust Antivirus

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in Computer Associates Vet Antivirus library, as used by CA InoculateIT 6.0, eTrust Antivirus r6.0 through 7.1, eTrust Antivirus for the Gateway r7.0 and r7.1, eTrust Secure Content Manager, eTrust Intrusion Detection, BrightStor ARCserve Backup (BAB) r11.1, Vet Antivirus, Zonelabs ZoneAlarm Security Suite, and ZoneAlarm Antivirus, allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a compressed VBA directory with a project name length of -1, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Broadcom Etrust Antivirus: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only
• Broadcom Etrust Antivirus EE: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Broadcom Etrust Ez Armor: version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only; version 2.4.4 only
• Broadcom Etrust Ez Armor Le: version 2.0 only; version 3.0.0.14 only
• Broadcom Etrust Intrusion Detection: version 1.4.1.13 only; version 1.4.5 only; version 1.5 only; version 3.0 only
• Broadcom Etrust Secure Content Manager: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only
• Broadcom Inoculateit: version 6.0 only
• Ca Brightstor Arcserve Backup: version 11.1 only
• Ca Etrust Antivirus: version 7.0 only; version 7.0_sp2 only; version 7.1 only
• Ca Etrust Intrusion Detection: version 3.0 only
• Ca Etrust Secure Content Manager: version 1.0 only
• Ca Vet Antivirus: version 10.66 only
• Zonelabs Zonealarm: any version
• Zonelabs Zonealarm Antivirus: any version

Published 2005-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.