It seems that some Antivirus scanners are subject to a denial of service attack when attempting do a manual scan of compressed files. Some versions affected are: Norton Antivirus 2002, Norton Antivirus 2003, Mcafee VirusScan 6, Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan Enterprise 7.1, Windows Xp default ZIP manager.
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Multiple Antivirus Scanners DoS attack.
--- [Vulnerable Products] ---
Only tested on...
* Norton Antivirus 2002
* Norton Antivirus 2003
* Mcafee VirusScan 6
* Network Associates (McAfee) VirusScan Enterprise 7.1
* Windows Xp default ZIP manager [report's wrong size of compress ZIP
files.]
There has been multiple reports [Unconfirmed]
*F-Prot 4.4.2 for Linux
*Panda Antivirus
Are vulnerable.
Risk Impact: Medium
--- [Details] ---
While having a manual scan of compressed files; several Antivirus, Trojan,
Spy ware scanners suffer a DoS attack if the software tries to completely
extract the archive and scan its content for a hostile file.
--- [Proof of Concept] ---
Please download this file.
http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/SERVER_dwn.zip
Moreover it's not safe to set automatically 'Quarantine/delete' option set
for your AV scanner as it may try to Quarantine the virus by extracting the
archive.
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Bipin Gautam
http://www.geocities.com/visitbipin/
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