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F-PROT Attachment Handling DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4593

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

Description

The remote host is running the F-PROT Antivirus product.

This version of F-PROT is vulnerable to a remote Denial of Service (DoS) attack when processing certain file types. Specifically, malformed CHM, UPX-compressed, ASPack-compressed and Microsoft Office documents can cause the remote antivirus engine to crash. An attacker exploiting this flaw would only need the ability to send an email with a malformed attachment.

Solution

Versions 4.4.4 and 6.0.9.0 are listed as not being vulnerable to this attack.

See Also

http://www.f-prot.com/download/ReleaseNotesWindows.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4593

Family: Web Clients

Published: 8/18/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:f-prot:f-prot_antivirus

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3243, CVE-2008-3244

BID: 30258, 30253