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McAfee Products PDF and TAR Handling Security Bypass

Secunia Advisory:

SA37179

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Release Date:

2009-10-28

Last Update:

2009-10-29

Popularity:

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Critical:

Not critical

Impact:

Security Bypass

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

McAfee GroupShield for Exchange 2000 5.x
McAfee GroupShield for Exchange 4.x
McAfee GroupShield for Exchange 5.x
McAfee GroupShield for Exchange 6.x
McAfee GroupShield for Lotus Domino 7.x
McAfee GroupShield for Lotus Domino on AIX 5.x
McAfee GroupShield for Lotus Domino on Windows 5.x
McAfee LinuxShield 1.x
McAfee Netshield for Netware 4.x
McAfee PortalShield for Microsoft SharePoint
McAfee Total Protection 2007
McAfee VirusScan 10.x/2006
McAfee VirusScan 8.x/2004
McAfee VirusScan 9.x/2005
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.x
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.x
McAfee VirusScan for Mac (Virex) 7.x
McAfee VirusScan Plus 2007

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Description:
Some weaknesses have been reported in various McAfee products, which can be exploited by malware to bypass the scanning functionality.

1) An error in the handling of TAR archives can be exploited to bypass the anti-virus scanning functionality via specially crafted archive files.

2) An error in the handling of PDF files can be exploited to bypass the anti-virus scanning functionality via specially crafted PDF files.

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