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Secunia Advisory SA12879

RAV Antivirus Zip Archive Virus Detection Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA12879
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Release Date 2004-10-20
   
Popularity 8,086 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
RAV AntiVirus Desktop for Linux 8.x
RAV Antivirus Desktop for Windows 8.x
RAV AntiVirus for AIM 1.x
RAV AntiVirus for File Servers 1.x
RAV AntiVirus for ICQ 1.x
RAV AntiVirus for Mail Servers 8.x
RAV AntiVirus for MSN Messenger 1.x
RAV AntiVirus for Novell Networks 8.x
RAV AntiVirus for Trillian 1.x
RAV AntiVirus for Yahoo! Messenger 1.x
RAV AntiVirus MailFilter 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2004-0936 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in RAV Antivirus, which can be exploited by malware to bypass certain scanning functionality.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when parsing .zip archive headers and can be exploited via a specially crafted .zip archive where the uncompressed size of the archived file has been modified within the local and global headers.

Successful exploitation causes malware in a specially crafted .zip archive to pass the scanning functionality undetected.

NOTE: This is not a critical issue on client systems, as the malware still is detected upon execution.


Solution
Filter all compressed file archives (.zip) at border gateways.

Provided and/or discovered by
Discovered by anonymous person and reported via iDEFENSE.

Original Advisory
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=153&type=vulnerabilities

Deep Links
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