PT-2008-4660 · Frisk · F-Prot Antivirus

Published 2008-07-21 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-3244

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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an engine crash, by exploiting a CHM file with a large nb dir value. This triggers an out-of-bounds read.

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 to version 4.4.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3244

Affected Products

F-Prot Antivirus

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3244 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31118 · Vendor Advisory
• http://nruns.com/security_advisory_fprot_out-of-bound_memory_access_DoS.php · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020507 · Note
• http://f-prot.com/download/ReleaseNotesWindows.txt · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2124/references · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30253 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43835 · Note