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TITLE:
Panda Antivirus EXE File Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26171

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26171/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Panda AntiVirus Enterprise Suite
http://secunia.com/product/781/
Panda AntiVirus Platinum 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/7297/
Panda AntiVirus Platinum 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/779/
Panda AntiVirus Small Business Edition
http://secunia.com/product/780/
Panda AntiVirus Titanium
http://secunia.com/product/778/

DESCRIPTION:
Sergio Alvarez has reported a vulnerability in Panda Antivirus, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when parsing .EXE
files and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow when e.g.
scanning a specially crafted .EXE file.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
An update has reportedly been issued on 2007-07-20 through the
regular update mechanism.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Sergio Alvarez, n.runs AG

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.nruns.com/%5Bn.runs-SA-2007.019%5D%20-%20Panda%20Antivirus%20EXE%20parsing%20Arbitrary%20Code%20Execution%20Advisory.txt

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