PT-2008-4659 · Markus Oberhumer+3 · Upx+3

Published 2008-07-21 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-3243

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: F-Prot Antivirus versions prior to 6.0.9.0 F-Prot Antivirus scanning engine versions prior to 4.4.4

Description: The issue affects the scanning engine, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This can be achieved through various crafted files, including a UPX-compressed file, which triggers an engine crash, a Microsoft Office file that triggers an infinite loop, or an ASPack-compressed file, which also triggers an engine crash.

Recommendations: For F-Prot Antivirus versions prior to 6.0.9.0, update to version 6.0.9.0 or later to resolve the issue. For F-Prot Antivirus scanning engine versions prior to 4.4.4, update the scanning engine to version 4.4.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3243

Affected Products

Aspack

F-Prot Antivirus

Office

Upx

References · 7

• http://secunia.com/advisories/31118 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3243 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43868 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43870 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43869 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30258 · Note
• http://f-prot.com/download/ReleaseNotesWindows.txt · Note