Executive Summary

Summary
Title F-PROT Antivirus: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-200904-14 First vendor Publication 2009-04-14
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2009-04-14
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

An error in F-PROT Antivirus may lead to a Denial of Service.

Background

F-PROT Antivirus is a multi-platform virus scanner for workstations and mail servers.

Description

Jonathan Brossard from iViZ Techno Solutions reported that F-PROT Antivirus does not correctly process ELF binaries with corrupted headers.

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user or automated system to scan a specially crafted ELF binary, leading to a crash.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All F-PROT Antivirus users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-antivirus/f-prot-6.0.2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-5747 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5747

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-14.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-14.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-20 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200904-14 (f-prot)
File : nvt/glsa_200904_14.nasl
2009-01-13 Name : F-PROT AV 'ELF' Header Denial of Service Vulnerability
File : nvt/gb_f-prot_av_dos_vuln.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
51134 Frisk F-PROT for GNU/Linux Crafted ELF Program Corrupted Header Anti-virus Pr...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-15 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200904-14.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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