PT-2007-4270 · Avira · Avira Antivir Antivirus

Published 2007-06-01 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-2973

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Avira Antivir Antivirus versions prior to 7.03.00.09

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop and CPU consumption, via a malformed TAR archive.

Recommendations For versions prior to 7.03.00.09, update to version 7.03.00.09 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-2973

Affected Products

Avira Antivir Antivirus

References · 11

• http://forum.antivir-pe.de/thread.php?threadid=22528 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25417 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2973 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1018137 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/24187 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34557 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/24239 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/470042/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://osvdb.org/36711 · Note
• http://nruns.com/advisories/%5Bn.runs-SA-2007.012%5D%20-%20Avira%20Antivir%20Antivirus%20TAR%20parsing%20Infinite%20Loop%20Advisory.txt · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1971 · Note