metadata/glsa/glsa-200904-14.xml

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<glsa id="200904-14">
  <title>F-PROT Antivirus: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple errors in F-PROT Antivirus may lead to a Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">f-prot</product>
  <announced>April 14, 2009</announced>
  <revised>April 17, 2009: 04</revised>
  <bug>232665</bug>
  <bug>253497</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-antivirus/f-prot" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">6.0.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">6.0.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    F-PROT Antivirus is a multi-platform virus scanner for workstations and
    mail servers.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The following vulnerabilities were found:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>Multiple errors when processing UPX, ASPack or Microsoft Office
    files (CVE-2008-3243).</li>
    <li>Infinite Sergio Alvarez of n.runs AG reported an invalid memory
    access when processing a CHM file with a large nb_dir value
    (CVE-2008-3244).</li>
    <li>Jonathan Brossard from iViZ Techno Solutions reported that F-PROT
    Antivirus does not correctly process ELF binaries with corrupted
    headers (CVE-2008-5747).
    </li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to scan a
    specially crafted file, leading to a crash or infinite loop.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All F-PROT Antivirus users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-antivirus/f-prot-6.0.2&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3243">CVE-2008-3243</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3244">CVE-2008-3244</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5747">CVE-2008-5747</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:38:56 +0000">
    craig
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:12:22 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:13:03 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>