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McAfee VirusScan Enterprise On-Access Scanner Unicode Filename Buffer Overflow
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA24914
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Release Date:
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2007-04-18
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Last Update:
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2007-04-27
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Popularity:
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12,196 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS or to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the On-Access scanner component when processing file names that contain multi-byte characters (e.g. Chinese). This can be exploited to stop the On-Access scan or to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a file with a specially crafted, overly long filename.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code but requires that East-Asia language files are installed, the default Unicode codepage is set to a language that contains multi-byte characters, and that the attacker is able to place the specially crafted file on the target system.
The vulnerability reportedly affects versions 8.0i Patch 11 and prior.
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