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Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Rising Antivirus, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in UNACEV2.DLL when extracting an ACE archive containing a file with an overly long filename. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when a user scans a specially crafted ACE archive.

The vulnerability is related to:
SA16479

Successful exploitation allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious ACE archive is scanned.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in Rising Antivirus 2006 version 18.24.10, 18.25.30, 18.25.40, and 18.27.21. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 18.29.12 or later via online update.

Provided and/or discovered by
Secunia Research.

Original Advisory
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-36/

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