A vulnerability has been reported in various F-Secure products, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the scanning of certain archives and packed executables (e.g. FSG packed files, ARJ archives), which can be exploited to cause an infinite loop.

Solution
Fixed automatically in database updates.

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Sergio Alvarez, n.runs AG.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
F-Secure:
http://www.f-secure.com/security/fsc-2007-3.shtml

n.runs AG:
http://www.nruns.com/advisories/%5Bn.runs-SA-2007.015%5D%20-%20F-Secure%20Antivirus%20FSG%20packed%20files%20parsing%20Infinite%20Loop%20Advisory.txt
http://www.nruns.com/advisories/%5Bn.runs-SA-2007.014%5D%20-%20F-Secure%20Antivirus%20ARJ%20parsing%20Infinite%20Loop%20Advisory.txt

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