Secunia Security Advisory - Alex Wheeler has reported a vulnerability in Kaspersky Anti-Virus, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Kaspersky Anti-Virus CAB Archive Handling Buffer Overflow
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17024
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17024/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/2781/
Kaspersky SMTP Gateway 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/4100/
DESCRIPTION:
Alex Wheeler has reported a vulnerability in Kaspersky Anti-Virus,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable
system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in "cab.ppl" when
processing malformed CAB archives. This can be exploited to cause a
heap-based buffer overflow and allows arbitrary code execution when a
malicious CAB archive is scanned.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 5.0.20.0. Other
versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Filter malicious CAB files at the perimeter.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Alex Wheeler
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.rem0te.com/public/images/kaspersky.pdf
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