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GLSA-200612-12 : F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 23864

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200612-12 (F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple vulnerabilities)

 F-Prot Antivirus version 4.6.7 fixes a heap-based buffer overflow, an infinite loop, and other unspecified vulnerabilities.
 Impact :

 Among other weaker impacts, a remote attacker could send an e-mail containing a malicious file that would trigger the buffer overflow vulnerability and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running F-Prot, which may be the root user.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All F-Prot users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-antivirus/f-prot-4.6.7'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200612-12

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 23864

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200612-12.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 12/14/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:f-prot, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-6293, CVE-2006-6294, CVE-2006-6352

GLSA: 200612-12