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>> F-Secure Products CAB and RAR Archives Security Bypass Vulnerability

Title : F-Secure Products CAB and RAR Archives Security Bypass Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0544
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0792 - CVE-2008-0910
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-02-14


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A vulnerability has been identified in various F-Secure products, which could be exploited by attackers or malware to bypass security checks. This issue is caused by an error when parsing specially crafted CAB or RAR archives, which could be exploited to bypass security restrictions and cause a vulnerable scanner to not detect malware stored in a malicious archive.

Affected Products

F-Secure Internet Security 2008
F-Secure Internet Security 2007 Second Edition
F-Secure Internet Security 2007
F-Secure Internet Security 2006
F-Secure Anti-Virus 2008
F-Secure Anti-Virus 2007 Second Edition
F-Secure Anti-Virus 2007
F-Secure Anti-Virus 2006
F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security 7.10
F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security 7.01
F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security 6.04
F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security 6.03
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Workstations 7.10
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Workstations 7.00
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Workstations 5.44
F-Secure Anti-Virus Linux Client Security 5.53
F-Secure Anti-Virus Linux Client Security 5.52
F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux 4.65
Solutions based on F-Secure Protection Service for Consumers version 7.00 and prior
Solutions based on F-Secure Protection Service for Business version 3.00 and prior

Solution

Apply patches :
http://www.f-secure.com/security/fsc-2008-1.shtml

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0544
http://www.f-secure.com/security/fsc-2008-1.shtml

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Thierry Zoller (n.runs AG).

ChangeLog

2008-02-14 : Initial release

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