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Secunia Advisory SA17024

Kaspersky Anti-Virus CAB Archive Handling Buffer Overflow
Secunia Advisory SA17024
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Release Date 2005-10-04
Last Update 2005-10-10
   
Popularity 19,403 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.x
Kaspersky Personal Security Suite 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-3142 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Alex Wheeler has reported a vulnerability in Kaspersky Anti-Virus, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in "cab.ppl" when processing malformed CAB archives. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious CAB archive is scanned.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following versions:
* Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0
* Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal Pro 5.0
* Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 for Windows Workstations
* Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 for Windows File Servers
* Kaspersky Personal Security Suite 1.1


Solution
Apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Alex Wheeler

Changelog
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Original Advisory
Kaspersky:
http://www.kaspersky.com/news?id=171512144

rem0te:
http://www.rem0te.com/public/images/kaspersky.pdf

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