Security Advisory SA48928 - Comodo Internet Security PE File Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA48928

Comodo Internet Security PE File Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA48928

Release Date

2012-04-20

Last Update

2012-04-27

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Criticality level

Not critical

Impact

DoS

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

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Software:

Comodo Internet Security 5.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2012-2273 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Ange Albertini has reported a vulnerability in Comodo Internet Security, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing certain Portable Executable (PE) files and can be exploited to cause a crash via e.g. a specially crafted PE file having the "ImageBase" address of the kernel.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 5.10.

Solution
Update to version 5.10.

Provided and/or discovered by
Ange Albertini

Changelog
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Original Advisory
Comodo:
http://www.comodo.com/home/download/release-notes.php?p=anti-malware

Ange Albertini:
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Apr/138

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