AVG Scanning Engine < 8.0.156 UPX Parsing DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4611

Synopsis

The remote Windows host contains an application that is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

AVG Anti-Virus is installed on the remote Windows host. The version of AVG Anti-Virus installed on the remote host is affected by a 'UPX' file parsing flaw. An attacker can trigger a divide-by-zero error by causing the application to process a specially crafted 'UPX' file, which would result in a denial of service condition.

Solution

Upgrade to version 8.0.156 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4611

Family: Web Clients

Published: 8/4/2008

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 33762

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:grisoft:avg_antivirus

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3373

BID: 30417

Detections

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