F-Secure Anti-Virus up to 5.52 memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in F-Secure Anti-Virus up to 5.52. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2006-0338. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in F-Secure Anti-Virus up to 5.52 (Anti-Malware Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. 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:

Multiple F-Secure Anti-Virus products and versions for Windows and Linux, including Anti-Virus for Windows Servers 5.52 and earlier, Internet Security 2004, 2005 and 2006, and Anti-Virus for Linux Servers 4.64 and earlier, allow remote attackers to hide arbitrary files and data via malformed (1) RAR and (2) ZIP archives, which are not properly scanned.

The bug was discovered 01/19/2006. The weakness was presented 01/19/2006 by Thierry Zoller (Website). The advisory is available at f-secure.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-0338 since 01/20/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 20804 (F-Secure ZIP/RAR Archive Handling Overflow Multiple RCE), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (24199), Tenable (20804), SecurityFocus (BID 16309†), OSVDB (22633†) and Secunia (SA18529†). See VDB-1994, VDB-1993 and VDB-1992 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Type

• Anti-Malware Software

Vendor

• F-Secure

Name

• Anti-Virus

Version

• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
• 5.5
• 5.6
• 5.7
• 5.8
• 5.9
• 5.10
• 5.11
• 5.12
• 5.13
• 5.14
• 5.15
• 5.16
• 5.17
• 5.18
• 5.19
• 5.20
• 5.21
• 5.22
• 5.23
• 5.24
• 5.25
• 5.26
• 5.27
• 5.28
• 5.29
• 5.30
• 5.31
• 5.32
• 5.33
• 5.34
• 5.35
• 5.36
• 5.37
• 5.38
• 5.39
• 5.40
• 5.41
• 5.42
• 5.43
• 5.44
• 5.45
• 5.46
• 5.47
• 5.48
• 5.49
• 5.50
• 5.51
• 5.52

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.f-secure.com/

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.6

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.6
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 20804
Nessus Name: F-Secure ZIP/RAR Archive Handling Overflow Multiple RCE
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: f-secure.com

Advisory: f-secure.com
Researcher: Thierry Zoller
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-0338 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-0338
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-28418
X-Force: 24199
SecurityFocus: 16309 - F-Secure Multiple Archive Handling Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 18529
OSVDB: 22633 - F-Secure Anti-Virus Crafted ZIP/RAR Scanner Bypass
SecurityTracker: 1015507
Vulnerability Center: 10218 - F-Secure AntiViruses Buffer Overflow via .zip \x26 .rar Files, Critical
Vupen: ADV-2006-0257

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 11:11
Updated: 06/13/2019 16:31
Changes: 03/12/2015 11:11 (60), 06/13/2019 16:31 (17)
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Cache ID: 216:D49:103

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