RISING Antivirus 20.61.42.00/21.06.31.00 input validation

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A vulnerability was found in RISING Antivirus 20.61.42.00/21.06.31.00 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation leads to input validation. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2008-5539. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in RISING Antivirus 20.61.42.00/21.06.31.00 (Anti-Malware Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

RISING Antivirus 21.06.31.00 and possibly 20.61.42.00, when Internet Explorer 6 or 7 is used, allows remote attackers to bypass detection of malware in an HTML document by placing an MZ header (aka "EXE info") at the beginning, and modifying the filename to have (1) no extension, (2) a .txt extension, or (3) a .jpg extension, as demonstrated by a document containing a CVE-2006-5745 exploit.

The weakness was shared 12/12/2008 (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-5539 since 12/12/2008. 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. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/22/2018).

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 X-Force (47435). The entries VDB-45443, VDB-45442, VDB-45441 and VDB-45440 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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• Anti-Malware Software

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• RISING

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• Antivirus

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• 20.61.42.00
• 21.06.31.00

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