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F-PROT Antivirus ACE and CHM File Handling Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA22879
Release Date: 2006-11-15
Last Update: 2006-12-08
Popularity: 8,303 views

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

Software:F-Prot Antivirus for Linux 3.x
F-Prot Antivirus for Linux 4.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-6352
CVE-2006-6293
CVE-2006-6294


Description:
Evgeny Legerov has reported two vulnerabilities in F-PROT Antivirus, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An error within the processing of ACE files can be exploited to cause an infinite loop that consumes available CPU resources.

2) An error within the processing of CHM files can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted CHM file.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 4.6.6. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 4.6.7.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Evgeny Legerov

Changelog:
2006-12-04: Added details about vulnerabilities. Updated "Solution" section.
2006-12-08: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
FRISK Software:
http://www.f-prot.com/news/gen_news/061201_release_unix467.html

GLEG:
http://gleg.net/fprot.txt


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