McAfee Antivirus ZIP / RAR Scan Evasion

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38654

Synopsis

An antivirus application installed on the remote host is affected by a scan evasion vulnerability.

Description

The McAfee antivirus application installed on the remote host is affected by a scan evasion vulnerability due to the virus definitions being out of date. In this case, the DAT file version of the installed antivirus product is prior to 5600. An attacker can exploit this, by embedding malicious code in a specially crafted ZIP or RAR file, to evade detection by the scanning engine.

Solution

Update the McAfee DAT file to version 5600 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38654

File Name: mcafee_zip_rar_scan_evasion.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 5/1/2009

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mcafee:virusscan_plus, cpe:/a:mcafee:mcafee:total_protection, cpe:/a:mcafee:internet_security_suite, cpe:/a:mcafee:virusscan_usb, cpe:/a:mcafee:virusscan_enterprise, cpe:/a:mcafee:virusscan_commandline, cpe:/a:mcafee:securityshield_for_microsoft_isa_server, cpe:/a:mcafee:securityshield_for_microsoft_sharepoint, cpe:/a:mcafee:securityshield_for_email_servers, cpe:/a:mcafee:email_gateway, cpe:/a:mcafee:total_protection_for_endpoint, cpe:/a:mcafee:active_virus_defense, cpe:/a:mcafee:active_virusscan

Required KB Items: Antivirus/McAfee/installed, Antivirus/McAfee/dat_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/29/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/30/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1348

BID: 34780

CWE: 20

Detections

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