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>> F-Secure Products Web Console Requests Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : F-Secure Products Web Console Requests Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2076
CVE ID : CVE-2006-2838
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-06-01


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A vulnerability has been identified in F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange and F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the web console that does not properly handle specially crafted HTTP requests, which could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Note : By default, connections to the web console are only allowed from localhost.

Affected Products

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange version 6.40
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper version 6.50
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper version 6.42
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper version 6.41
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper version 6.40

Solution

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange version 6.40 - Apply hotfix :
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/support/hotfix/fsav-mse/fsavmse640-05.zip
F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper - Upgrade to version 6.60 or apply hotfix (for version 6.50) :
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/support/hotfix/fsig/fsigk650-01.zip

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2076
http://www.f-secure.com/security/fsc-2006-3.shtml

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Mikko Korppi

ChangeLog

2006-06-01 : Initial release

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