COMMAND
tmlisten.exe
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
TrendMicro OfficeScan
PROBLEM
Jeff Stevens found following. While playing around with nmap he
managed to pull down a bunch of our NT workstations running
OfficeScan. This could potentially be used as a DoS attack to
bring down any NT machine running OfficeScan. he used the
following command where machine.domain.com is a Windows NT machine
running either SP 4 or 5 or a Win2k RC3 box.
nmap -sT -O -p 12345 machine.domain.com
One of three things can happen:
(1) Nothing -- rare but it does happen.
(2) The machine slows to a halt as tmlisten.exe pulls 100% CPU.
(3) Visual C++ error as tmlisten.exe crashes.
OfficeScan 3.5, scan engine 5.100 and pattern file 663 are running
on the target machine. You can also make the process dump with a
Visual C++ error if you send a bunch of data via telnet.
Tmlisten.exe does crash usually when the telnet connection is
closed, not when you send the data.
SOLUTION
Patch availability:
http://www.antivirus.com/download/ofce_patch.htm