Secunia Security Advisory - Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian has discovered a vulnerability in BitDefender Internet Security, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
BitDefender Internet Security Script Insertion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34082
VERIFY ADVISORY:
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DESCRIPTION:
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian has discovered a vulnerability in
BitDefender Internet Security, which can be exploited by malicious
people to bypass certain security restrictions.
Input passed via the filename of an infected executable is not
properly sanitised before being used to output infection details.
This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in
the context of the generated page via a specially crafted archive.
Successful exploitation may result in e.g. the execution of arbitrary
script code in a local context by including a malicious HTML file
placed on the local system.
The vulnerability is confirmed in BitDefender Internet Security 2009
build 12.0.11.4. Other versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Avoid clicking virus names included in the BitDefender infection
report page.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian
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