Title : F-Secure Products RPM File Handling Integer Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2874 CVE ID : CVE-2008-6085 CWE ID : CWE-189
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-10-21
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in various F-Secure products, which could be exploited by attackers or malware to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error when processing malformed RPM files, which could be exploited to crash an affected application set to scan inside compressed archives or execute arbitrary code via a malicious file.
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