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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in F-Secure Anti-Virus 6.02 (Anti-Malware Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Format string vulnerability in F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security 6.02 allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via format string specifiers in the Management Server name field on the Communication settings page.

The bug was discovered 03/18/2007. The weakness was disclosed 03/18/2007 by Deral Heiland with Layered Defense Research (Website). The advisory is shared for download at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-1557 since 03/20/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (33138).

Productinfo

Type

• Anti-Malware Software

Vendor

• F-Secure

Name

• Anti-Virus

Version

• 6.02

License

• commercial

CPE 2.3info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.9

VulDB Base Score: 8.4
VulDB Temp Score: 7.9
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔍
Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

03/01/2007 🔍
03/18/2007 +17 days 🔍
03/18/2007 +0 days 🔍
03/19/2007 +0 days 🔍
03/20/2007 +1 days 🔍
03/20/2007 +0 days 🔍
03/20/2007 +0 days 🔍
03/31/2007 +11 days 🔍
12/06/2007 +249 days 🔍
03/13/2015 +2654 days 🔍
08/01/2019 +1602 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: f-secure.com

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Deral Heiland
Organization: Layered Defense Research
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2007-1557 (🔍)
X-Force: 33138
Vulnerability Center: 17016 - F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security Format String Vulnerability Allows Local Code Execution and DoS, Low
SecurityFocus: 23023 - F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security Local Format String Vulnerability
OSVDB: 34764 - F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security Management Server Communications Settings Format String
Vupen: ADV-2007-1055

Entryinfo

Created: 03/13/2015 12:16
Updated: 08/01/2019 10:05
Changes: 03/13/2015 12:16 (64), 08/01/2019 10:05 (1)
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