PT-2008-6596 · Microsoft+1 · Internet Explorer+1

Xhakerman2006 · Published 2008-12-12 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-5535

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Norman Antivirus version 5.80.02

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass detection of malware in an HTML document. This can be achieved by placing an MZ header at the beginning of the document and modifying the filename to have either no extension, a .txt extension, or a .jpg extension.

Recommendations For Norman Antivirus version 5.80.02, update the software to a version that includes a fix for this issue, as using Internet Explorer 6 or 7 with the current version may allow malware to bypass detection.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5535

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

Norman Antivirus

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5535 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/499043/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4723 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/498995/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47435 · Note