VirusBlokAda VBA32 Personal Antivirus 3.12.8 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in VirusBlokAda VBA32 Personal Antivirus 3.12.8. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2008-5667. Additionally, an exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in VirusBlokAda VBA32 Personal Antivirus 3.12.8 (Anti-Malware Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

The scanning engine in VirusBlokAda VBA32 Personal Antivirus 3.12.8.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a malformed RAR archive.

The weakness was released 12/18/2008 by LiquidWorm (Website). The advisory is shared at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-5667 since 12/18/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 115982 (Vba32 Personal Antivirus Archive Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability - Zero Day).

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 databases at X-Force (47573), Exploit-DB (6658) and SecurityFocus (BID 31560†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.8

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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OpenVAS ID: 800213
OpenVAS Name: VirusBlokAda Personal AV Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

10/03/2008 🔍
12/18/2008 +76 days 🔍
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03/17/2015 +2280 days 🔍
05/24/2025 +3721 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: milw0rm.com⛔
Researcher: LiquidWorm
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2008-5667 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-5667
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-45581
X-Force: 47573
SecurityFocus: 31560 - Vba32 Personal Antivirus Archive Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability

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

Entryinfo

Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 05/24/2025 20:55
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (58), 03/27/2019 08:22 (2), 11/06/2024 00:20 (21), 05/24/2025 20:55 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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