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>> BitDefender Antivirus Engine PE File Parsing Plugin Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : BitDefender Antivirus Engine PE File Parsing Plugin Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-5040
CVE ID : CVE-2006-6627
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-12-17


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A vulnerability has been identified in various BitDefender Antivirus products, which could be exploited by attackers or malware to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error within the PE file parsing plugin when processing malformed files, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a vulnerable application into scanning a specially crafted file.

Affected Products

BitDefender Antivirus
BitDefender Antivirus Plus
BitDefender for ISA Server
BitDefender for MS Exchange 2000
BitDefender for MS Exchange 2003
BitDefender for MS Exchange 5.5
BitDefender Internet Security
BitDefender Mail Protection for Enterprises
BitDefender Online Scanner

Solution

Fixes have been delivered through the automatic update mechanism :
http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Downloads/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5040
http://www.bitdefender.com/KB323-en--cevakrnl.xmd-vulnerability.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Sergio Alvarez (n.runs AG)

ChangeLog

2006-12-17 : Initial release

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