F-Prot Antivirus up to 4.6.6 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in F-Prot Antivirus. The affected element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2006-6293. Furthermore, an exploit is available. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in F-Prot Antivirus (Anti-Malware Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Heap-based buffer overflow in FRISK Software F-Prot Antivirus before 4.6.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted CHM file. NOTE: this issue has at least a partial overlap with CVE-2006-6294.

The bug was discovered 11/24/2006. The weakness was published 11/15/2006 with GLEG Ltd. (Website). The advisory is available at gentoo.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-6293 since 12/05/2006. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

After 3 weeks, there has been an exploit disclosed. 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 23864 (GLSA-200612-12 : F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at f-prot.com. A possible mitigation has been published 4 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (30707), Exploit-DB (2893), Tenable (23864), SecurityFocus (BID 21086†) and OSVDB (31299†). Similar entries are available at VDB-33664, VDB-33629 and VDB-84844. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 23864
Nessus Name: GLSA-200612-12 : F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 57951
OpenVAS Name: Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200612-12 (f-prot)
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Recommended: Patch
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Patch: f-prot.com

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: gentoo.org
Organization: GLEG Ltd.
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-6293 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-6293
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-2690
X-Force: 30707
SecurityFocus: 21086 - F-PROT Antivirus CHM File Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 23328 - Gentoo update for f-prot, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 31299 - Frisk F-PROT Antivirus Unspecified ACE File DoS
SecurityTracker: 1017331
Vulnerability Center: 13381 - FRISK F-Prot AntiVirus Buffer Overflow via CHM File, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-4830

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

Created: 11/20/2006 12:23
Updated: 08/10/2024 21:15
Changes: 11/20/2006 12:23 (101), 07/12/2019 09:21 (1), 08/10/2024 21:15 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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