F-Secure Antivirus 6.01/6.21/6.31/6.32 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in F-Secure Antivirus 6.01/6.21/6.31/6.32. Affected is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2004-0830. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in F-Secure Antivirus 6.01/6.21/6.31/6.32 (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 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. CVE summarizes:

The Content Scanner Server in F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange 6.21 and earlier, F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange 6.01 and earlier, and F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper 6.32 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash due to unhandled exception) via a certain malformed packet.

The bug was discovered 08/25/2004. The weakness was shared 09/09/2004 by iDefense with iDEFENSE (Website). The advisory is shared for download at idefense.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-0830 since 09/07/2004. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 15 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at f-secure.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17307), SecurityFocus (BID 11145†), OSVDB (9818†), Secunia (SA12492†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1011200†). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.2

VulDB Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Temp Score: 7.2
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: f-secure.com

Timelineinfo

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: f-secure.com

Advisory: idefense.com⛔
Researcher: iDefense
Organization: iDEFENSE
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2004-0830 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0830
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-824
X-Force: 17307 - F-Secure Anti-Virus and Internet Gatekeeper Content Scanner denial of service, Medium Risk
SecurityFocus: 11145 - F-Secure Content Scanner Server Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 12492 - F-Secure Content Scanner Server Exception Handling Denial of Service, Less Critical
OSVDB: 9818 - F-Secure Anti-Virus For Microsoft Exchange Content Scanner Server Exception Handling DoS
SecurityTracker: 1011200
SecuriTeam: securiteam.com

Entryinfo

Created: 09/10/2004 12:48
Updated: 06/29/2019 10:28
Changes: 09/10/2004 12:48 (80), 06/29/2019 10:28 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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