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avast! Home/Professional TAR File Processing Heap Corruption
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA27929
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Release Date:
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2007-12-05
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Last Update:
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2007-12-07
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Popularity:
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7,146 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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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: | avast! Home/Professional 4.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-6265
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in avast! Home/Professional, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of specially crafted TAR files. This can be exploited to corrupt heap memory via certain unspecified TAR fields.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 4.7.1098.
Solution:
Update to version 4.7.1098.
http://www.avast.com/eng/download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Sowhat of Nevis Labs.
Changelog:
2007-12-06: Updated "Description" section with additional information. Increased criticality and updated "Original Advisory" section.
2007-12-07: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
ALWIL Software:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-home_pro-revision-history.html
Nevis Labs:
http://secway.org/advisory/AD20071206.txt
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