F-Secure Anti-Virus RAR Archive privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in F-Secure Anti-Virus. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component RAR Archive Handler. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2004-0771. The attack may be launched remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in F-Secure Anti-Virus (Anti-Malware Software) (version now known) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component RAR Archive Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, and integrity. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in the extract_one function from lhext.c in LHA may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long w (working directory) command line option, a different issue than CVE-2004-0769. NOTE: this issue may be REJECTED if there are not any cases in which LHA is setuid or is otherwise used across security boundaries.

The weakness was shared 01/19/2006 by Thierry Zoller (Website). The advisory is available at f-secure.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-0771 since 08/04/2004. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 14813 (FreeBSD : lha -- numerous vulnerabilities when extracting archives (91)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at f-secure.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (16196), Exploit-DB (24120), Tenable (14813), SecurityFocus (BID 10354†) and Secunia (SA18529†). vuldb.com is providing further details. The entries VDB-670, VDB-1993, VDB-1992 and VDB-28418 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Access: Public
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Nessus ID: 14813
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : lha -- numerous vulnerabilities when extracting archives (91)
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OpenVAS ID: 52374
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: lha
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Patch: f-secure.com

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05/15/2004 🔍
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05/26/2004 +11 days 🔍
08/04/2004 +70 days 🔍
09/02/2004 +29 days 🔍
09/24/2004 +22 days 🔍
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01/19/2006 +422 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: f-secure.com

Advisory: f-secure.com
Researcher: Thierry Zoller
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-0771 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0771
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-1994

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X-Force: 16196 - LHA extract_one buffer overflows, High Risk
SecurityFocus: 10354 - LHA Multiple extract_one Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 18529 - F-Secure Anti-Virus Archive Handling Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
Vulnerability Center: 5286 - Buffer Overflow in LHA extract_one Function Enables Code Execution, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 05/26/2004 17:27
Updated: 12/23/2024 14:07
Changes: 05/26/2004 17:27 (79), 10/08/2018 15:44 (2), 03/12/2021 12:29 (7), 03/12/2021 12:35 (1), 12/23/2024 14:07 (18)
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