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McAfee Multiple Products LHA File Handling Buffer Overflow

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SA14628

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Release Date:

2005-03-18

Last Update:

2005-03-21

Popularity:

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Critical:

Highly critical

Impact:

System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

OS:

McAfee WebShield Appliances

Software:

McAfee Active Mail Protection
McAfee Active Threat Protection
McAfee Active Virus Defense SMB Edition
McAfee Active VirusScan SMB Edition
McAfee GroupShield for Exchange 2000 5.x
McAfee GroupShield for Exchange 4.x
McAfee GroupShield for Exchange 5.x
McAfee GroupShield for Exchange 6.x
McAfee GroupShield for Lotus Domino on AIX 5.x
McAfee GroupShield for Lotus Domino on Windows 5.x
McAfee GroupShield for Mail Servers with ePO
McAfee LinuxShield 1.x
McAfee Managed VirusScan
McAfee Netshield for Netware 4.x
McAfee PortalShield for Microsoft SharePoint
McAfee SecurityShield for Microsoft ISA Server
McAfee VirusScan 4.x
McAfee VirusScan 8.x/2004
McAfee VirusScan 9.x/2005
McAfee VirusScan Command Line
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.x
McAfee VirusScan for Mac (Virex) 7.x
McAfee VirusScan NetApp
McAfee VirusScan Professional 7.x
McAfee WebShield SMTP 4.x

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Description:
ISS X-Force has reported a vulnerability in multiple McAfee products, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the AV scanning engine when processing LHA archives and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a specially crafted LHA file.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 4320 of the AV scanning engine and affects the following products:
* Internet Security Suite
* VirusScan (all versions)
* VirusScan Professional
* Active Virus Defense SMB Edition
* Active VirusScan SMB Edition
* Active Threat Protection
* Active Mail Protection
* GroupShield for Exchange
* GroupShield for Exchange 5.5
* GroupShield for Lotus Domino
* GroupShield for Mail Servers with ePO
* LinuxShield
* NetShield for Netware
* PC Security Suite
* PortalShield for Microsoft SharePoint
* SecurityShield for Microsoft ISA Server
* Virex
* VirusScan ASaP
* Managed VirusScan
* VirusScan Command Line
* VirusScan for NetApp
* VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i
* Web Essentials
* WebShield Appliances
* WebShield SMTP

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