F-Secure Archive Handling RCE (FSC-2008-2)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 31682

Synopsis

A antivirus application installed on the remote host is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability.

Description

The version of F-Secure Anti-Virus installed on the remote host fails to handle specially crafted archives. A remote attacker can exploit this issue to crash the application or execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges.

Solution

Enable auto-updates if using F-Secure Internet Security 2006-08.
Alternatively, apply the appropriate hotfix as referenced in the vendor advisory.

See Also

http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c10/archive/

http://www.nessus.org/u?3da6d1ba

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 31682

File Name: fsecure_fsc_2008_02.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 3/28/2008

Updated: 7/12/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:f-secure:f-secure_anti-virus

Required KB Items: SMB/name, SMB/login, SMB/password, SMB/registry_full_access, SMB/transport

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1412

BID: 28282

CWE: 20