WithSecure Client Security Scanning Engine denial of service

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in WithSecure Client Security, Server Security, Email and Server Security, Elements Endpoint Protection, Client Security for Mac, Linux Security, Linux Protection and Atlant. This affects an unknown function of the component Scanning Engine. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2023-42522. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in WithSecure Client Security, Server Security, Email and Server Security, Elements Endpoint Protection, Client Security for Mac, Linux Security, Linux Protection and Atlant. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Scanning Engine. 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 availability. The summary by CVE is:

Certain WithSecure products allow a remote crash of a scanning engine via processing of an import struct in a PE file. This affects WithSecure Client Security 15, WithSecure Server Security 15, WithSecure Email and Server Security 15, WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection 17 and later, WithSecure Client Security for Mac 15, WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection for Mac 17 and later, Linux Security 64 12.0 , Linux Protection 12.0, and WithSecure Atlant (formerly F-Secure Atlant) 1.0.35-1.

The weakness was published 09/18/2023. The advisory is shared at withsecure.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-42522 since 09/11/2023. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-46955). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• WithSecure

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• Atlant
• Client Security
• Client Security for Mac
• Elements Endpoint Protection
• Email and Server Security
• Linux Protection
• Linux Security
• Server Security

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