F-PROT Antivirus Engine < 4.4.4 Multiple File Handling DoS Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33549

Synopsis

The remote host has an application that is affected by multiple flaws.

Description

The version of F-PROT Anti-Virus installed on the remote Windows host contains flaws in the way it handles CHM, UPX-compressed, ASPack-compressed and certain Microsoft office files.

- A malformed CHM file containing '0xffffffff' in the 'nb_dir' field could crash the application.

- A malformed UPX-compressed or ASPack-compressed file could crash the application.

- A specially crafted Microsoft office document could trigger a infinite loop, causing a denial of service condition.

Solution

Upgrade to F-PROT Anti-Virus engine 4.4.4 included with F-PROT Anti-Virus version 6.0.9.0.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33549

File Name: fprot_multiple_vulns.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 7/21/2008

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3243, CVE-2008-3244

BID: 30258, 30253

CWE: 20

Detections

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