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Panda Antivirus ZOO Archive Decompression Buffer Overflow
Secunia Advisory: SA17765
Release Date: 2005-11-30
Last Update: 2005-12-20
Popularity: 8,673 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Panda AntiVirus Enterprise Suite
Panda AntiVirus Platinum 7.x
Panda AntiVirus Small Business Edition
Panda AntiVirus Titanium
Panda CommandlineSecure Antivirus
Panda CVPSecure Antivirus
Panda DominoSecure Antivirus
Panda ExchangeSecure Antivirus
Panda FileSecure Antivirus
Panda ISASecure Antivirus
Panda PerimeterScan
Panda PostfixSecure Antivirus
Panda ProxySecure Antivirus
Panda QmailSecure Antivirus
Panda SendmailSecure Antivirus

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-3922


Description:
Alex Wheeler has reported a vulnerability in Panda Antivirus, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in "pskcmp.dll" when performing Lempel-Ziv decompression of ZOO archives. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and may allow arbitrary code execution when a malicious ZOO archive is scanned.

Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed via automatic signature update on 2005-12-02.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Alex Wheeler

Changelog:
2005-12-07: Added CVE reference.
2005-12-20: Updated "Solution Status" and "Solution" sections.

Original Advisory:
http://www.rem0te.com/public/images/panda.pdf


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