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Secunia Advisory SA31118

F-Prot Antivirus Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA31118
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Release Date 2008-07-17
Last Update 2008-07-28
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
F-Prot Antivirus for Windows 6.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-3243 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-3244 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in F-Prot Antivirus, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An input validation error when processing the nb_dir field field of a CHM file's header can be exploited to cause an invalid memory access.

2) An unspecified error can be exploited to crash the engine via a specially crafted UPX-compressed file.

3) An unspecified error can be exploited to cause the engine to enter an infinite loop via a specially crafted Microsoft Office file.

4) An unspecified error can be exploited to cause a crash in the 64-bit engine when scanning ASPack-compressed files.


Solution
Update to the latest product/engine versions.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
1) Sergio Alvarez of n.runs AG

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
FRISK:
http://www.f-prot.com/download/ReleaseNotesWindows.txt

n.runs:
http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_fprot_out-of-bound_memory_access_DoS.php

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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