Detections
Analytics
CVE-2005-3371
high
Description
Multiple interpretation error in AVG 7 7.0.323 allows remote attackers to bypass virus scanning via a file such as BAT, HTML, and EML with an "MZ" magic byte sequence which is normally associated with EXE, which causes the file to be treated as a safe type that could still be executed as a dangerous file type by applications on the end system, as demonstrated by a "triple headed" program that contains EXE, EML, and HTML content, aka the "magic byte bug."
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15189
http://www.securityelf.org/updmagic.html
http://www.securityelf.org/magicbyteadv.html