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Secunia Advisory SA17197

BitDefender Anti-Virus Engine Malformed Archives Virus Detection Bypass
Secunia Advisory SA17197
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Release Date 2005-10-14
   
Popularity 9,526 views
Comments 0 comments

Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Security Bypass
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:
BitDefender AntiSpam for Mail Servers (Win SMTP Proxy) 1.x
BitDefender Antivirus & Antispam for Linux and FreeBSD Mail Servers 1.x
BitDefender Antivirus & Antispam for Mail Servers (WIN SMTP Proxy) 1.x
BitDefender AvxScanOnline ActiveX Control 3.x
BitDefender for File Servers 1.x
BitDefender for Lotus Domino 1.x
BitDefender for MS Exchange 2000 1.x
BitDefender for MS Exchange 2003 1.x
BitDefender for MS Exchange 5.5 1.x
BitDefender for MS ISA Server
BitDefender for MS SharePoint 2003 2.x
BitDefender for Samba 1.x
BitDefender Mail Protection for Small Business 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

fRoGGz has reported a weakness in BitDefender Anti-Virus scan engine, which can be exploited by malware to bypass certain scanning functionality.

For more information:
SA17126

NOTE: This is not an issue on client systems, as the malware is still detected upon execution by the desktop on-access scanner.


Solution
Update to the latest version via online update.

Provided and/or discovered by
fRoGGz, SecuBox Labs

Original Advisory
http://kb.bitdefender.com/KB262-en--Malformed-Archives-Scan-Evasion-Vulnerability.html

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


Do you have additional information related to this advisory?

Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com

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