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SurfControl Nested ZIP Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA9314
Release Date: 2003-07-21
Last Update: 2003-08-04
Popularity: 7,858 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:SurfControl E-mail Filter for SMTP 4.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in SurfControl E-Mail filter for SMTP allowing malicious people to create an archive which can bypass the filter.

The problem is that SurfControl fails to check more than 15 ZIP archives which are stored in one ZIP archive. This allows number 16 and the following to contain malicious files.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 4.6.

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