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Symantec Products Symantec Decomposer RAR File Handling Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA29140
Release Date: 2008-02-27
Popularity: 9,874 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Symantec AntiVirus for Network Attached Storage 4.x
Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 4.x
Symantec AntiVirus/Filtering for Domino 3.x
Symantec Mail Security for Exchange 4.x
Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange 5.x
Symantec Scan Engine 5.x

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in various Symantec products, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.

1) A boundary error in Symantec's Decomposer engine can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow when handling a specially crafted .RAR file.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

2) An error in Symantec's Decomposer engine can be exploited to cause the process to consume large amounts of memory when handling a specially crafted .RAR file.

The vulnerabilities affect all builds of the following products:
* Symantec AntiVirus for Network Attached Storage version 4.3.16.39 and prior
* Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine version 4.3.16.39 and prior
* Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine for Caching version 4.3.16.39 and prior
* Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine for Clearswift version 4.3.16.39 and prior
* Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine for Messaging version 4.3.16.39 and prior
* Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine for MS ISA version 4.3.16.39 and prior
* Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine for MS SharePoint version 4.3.16.39 and prior
* Symantec AntiVirus/Filtering for Domino MPE(AIX, Linux, Solaris) all versions
* Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange version 4.6.5.12 and prior
* Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange version 5.0.4.363 and prior
* Symantec Scan Engine version 5.1.4.24 and prior

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