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AVG Anti-Virus UPX Processing Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA31290
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Release Date:
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2008-07-29
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Last Update:
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2008-08-01
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Popularity:
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4,682 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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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: | AVG Anti-Virus 8.x
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Binary Analysis:
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BA530 :: Available for 1 Credit 
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Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Sergio ‘shadown’ Alvarez has reported a vulnerability in AVG Anti-Virus, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a divide-by-zero error when processing UPX compressed executables. This can be exploited to cause the scanning engine to crash when scanning a specially crafted UPX compressed executable file.
The vulnerability affects versions prior to 8.0.156.
Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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