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F-Secure Anti-Virus Real-Time Scanning Component Privilege Escalation Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA25439  
Release Date: 2007-05-30
Last Update: 2007-06-01

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:F-Secure Anti-Virus 2005
F-Secure Anti-Virus 2006
F-Secure Anti-Virus 2007
F-Secure Anti-Virus 5.x
F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security 6.x
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Citrix Servers 5.x
F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper 5.x
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers 5.x
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Workstations 5.x
F-Secure Internet Security 2005
F-Secure Internet Security 2006
F-Secure Internet Security 2007

CVE reference:CVE-2007-2965 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in various F-Secure products, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the real-time scanning component and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges via specially crafted I/O request packets.

Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, scan using the Network Software Inspector.

Solution:
F-Secure Internet Security 2005 - 2007:
Hotfix distributed automatically.

F-Secure Anti-Virus 2005 - 2007:
Hotfix distributed automatically.

F-Secure Protection Service for Consumers 5.00 - 6.40:
Hotfix distributed automatically.

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Workstations 5.44:
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/support/hotfix/fsavcs/fsavwk602-04-signed.fsfix

F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security 6.00 - 6.03:
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/support/hotfix/fsavcs/fsavwk602-04-signed.fsfix

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers 5.50- 5.52:
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/support/hotfix/fsav-server/fsavsr552-11-signed.fsfix

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Citrix Servers 5.50-5.52:
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/support/hotfix/fsav-server/fsavsr552-11-signed.fsfix

F-Secure Anti-Virus for MIMEsweeper 5.61:
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/support/hotfix/fsav-server/fsavsr552-11-signed.fsfix

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2007-06-01: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
F-Secure:
http://www.f-secure.com/security/fsc-2007-2.shtml



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