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Secunia Advisory SA16085

BitDefender for Mail Servers Malware Detection Bypass
Secunia Advisory SA16085
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2005-07-15
   
Popularity 11,051 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Software:
BitDefender Antivirus & Antispam for Mail Servers (WIN SMTP Proxy) 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description

Alexander Hagenah has reported a vulnerability in BitDefender for Mail Servers, which can be exploited by malware to bypass certain scanning functionality.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when parsing attachments and can be exploited via a specially crafted UUencoded mail with multiple attachments.

Successful exploitation causes malware in an attachment to pass the scanning functionality undetected.

The vulnerability has been reported in engine versions 1.6.1 and prior for Linux and FreeBSD.


Solution
The vendor has reportedly issued a patch, which is downloaded automatically.

Provided and/or discovered by
Alexander Hagenah

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