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Trend Micro Products RAR Processing Denial Of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA23321
Release Date: 2006-12-11
Last Update: 2006-12-12
Popularity: 8,788 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Trend Micro OfficeScan Corporate Edition 7.x
Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2006 / 14.x
Trend Micro ServerProtect for Windows/NetWare 5.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-5645
CVE-2006-6458


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in various Trend Micro products, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the AntiVirus engine when processing RAR archive with "head_size" and "pack_size" header fields set to 0. This can be exploited to consume almost all CPU resources when scanning a specially crafted RAR archive.

The vulnerability is reported in the following products (other versions may also be affected):
* Trend Micro PC Cillin - Internet Security 2006
* Trend Micro Office Scan 7.3
* Trend Micro Server Protect 5.58

Solution:
Update to the latest version of the scan engine.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Titon, BastardLabs
Damian Put
An anonymous researcher

Changelog:
2006-12-12: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=439


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